Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life

This contemporary Zen classic is a provocative and playful exploration the Zen koan tradition, revealing how the paradoxes that confront us every day are an integral part of our spiritual journey

Bring Me the Rhinoceros 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.

Author and Zen teacher 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.

Author: John Tarrant
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 11/11/2008
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 7.56h x 5.50w x 0.62d
ISBN13: 9781590306185
ISBN10: 159030618X
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Zen
- Religion | Buddhism | Zen (see also Philosophy | Zen)

About the Author
A Zen teacher who has studied koans for thirty years, John Tarrant directs the Pacific Zen Institute, a venture in meditation and the arts, and teaches culture change in organizations. He is the author of several books, including The Light Inside the Dark. He lives among the vineyards near Santa Rosa, California.