Overview
In Through Forests of Every Color, renowned Zen teacher Joan Sutherland reimagines theĀ koanĀ tradition with allegiance to the root spirit of theĀ koansĀ and to their profound potential for vivifying, subverting, and sanctifying our lives.Ā HerĀ decades of practicing with koansĀ and of translating themĀ from classical Chinese imbues this text withĀ a warm familiarity, an ease still suffused with awe.Ā Ā
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Interlinked essays on ākoansĀ as art,ā ākeeping company withĀ koans,ā and āwalking theĀ koanĀ wayā intersperse with beautifully translated renditionsĀ of dozens of traditional ZenĀ koans. Sutherland also shares innovativeĀ koansĀ culled from Western literature, as well as teachings on how to create idiosyncratic koans or "turning words" from the circumstances of one's own life.
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āFirst honored is your yearning, the preparation made on faith that there is something that will receive you if you make yourself ready,ā writes Sutherland of theĀ koanĀ seeker. āBathedāattended to, washed free of complicationsāand then aspiring to the deepest kind of beautyāreceptive, brave, dedicated, openhearted. Already youāve begun to look like the thing youāre looking for.ā
This book title, Through Forests of Every Color (Awakening with Koans), ISBN: 9781611809862, by Joan Sutherland, published by Shambhala (June 21, 2022) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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