Author: John Tarrant
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This is an unusual guide to happiness and a can opener for your thinking. For fifteen hundred years, Zen koans have been passed down through generations of masters, usually in private encounters between teacher and student. This book deftly retells more than a dozen traditional koans, which are partly paradoxical questions dangerous to your beliefs and partly treasure boxes of ancient wisdom. Koans show that you don’t have to impress people or change into an improved, more polished version of yourself. Instead you can find happiness by unbuilding, unmaking, throwing overboard, and generally subverting unhappiness. John Tarrant brings the heart of the koan tradition out into the open, reminding us that the old wisdom remains as vital as ever, a deep resource available to anyone in any place or time. / Desconcertar, liberar, serenar, centrar y descentrar, demoler los límites del lenguaje y de la lógica: éstos son sólo algunos de los objetivos de los koans, breves historias o sentencias paradójicas de la milenaria tradición zen concebidas para guiar a la conciencia por caminos insólitos hacia la plenitud. John Tarrant nos regala quince de estas joyas iluminando su belleza y su lirismo, situándolas en su contexto y en el nuestro. Para acercarnos a su interpretación los acompaña de anécdotas y ejemplos, no exentos de sentido del humor. Así iniciaremos un viaje hacia la felicidad desmontando, tirando por la borda, subvirtiendo la infelicidad; un viaje sin mapa, sin más pautas que la de expandir la mente para experimentar un profundo cambio de actitud e interiorizar la tranquilizadora idea de que, en ocasiones, la respuesta es que no hay que buscar la respuesta. Desconcertar, liberar, serenar, centrar y descentrar, demoler los límites del lenguaje y de la lógica: éstos son sólo algunos de los objetivos de los koans, breves historias o sentencias paradójicas de la milenaria tradición zen concebidas para guiar a la conciencia por caminos insólitos hacia la plenitud.
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
BISAC Code: REL092000
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