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Title: Zen and facing death
Review: It may help people unfamiliar with Zen to know that sometimes a Zen master may assign the student a koan (ko an) to wrestle with. A koan is a story or question that seems nonsensical or paradoxical, but which makes sense if the student is able to shake off his/her normal assumptions about how the universe works and who the student is within that context. For anyone who is interested in this, a couple of good starting points are:Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans to Bring You JoyandZen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings. I was fortunate enough to buy Bring me the Rhinoceros when it was still in print, but your local library may have a copy.
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