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Title: "Hand me the rhinoceros fan. It's broken? Then hand me the rhinoceros!"
Review: HAND ME THE RHINOCEROS is a brilliant little book on Koan practice in Zen. Koans are little riddles ("What is the sound of one hand clapping?") the contemplation of which can cause an enlightenment experience.Tarrant illustrates a number of Koans with a series of chatty personal tales. There's nothing of the esoteric in Tarrant's writing. These obscure epigrams are attacked in a straight-ahead manner that both illuminates the nature of Koan study and (less importantly) provides some guidance to the answer.Whether the reader is an experienced Zen student used to working with Koans or the rankest newcomer to the cushion doesn't matter. BRING ME THE RHINOCEROS will bring you to a clearer understanding of the Great Matter.
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