Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn AUTH-7381800 -Doug Neal

-Doug Neal

Author: Ken Wells

ISBN10: 1735742805

ISBN13: 9781943539024

ISBN10: 1250261392

Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn AUTH-7381800 -Doug NealSomebody comes into the Zen center with a lighted cigarette, walks up to the Buddha statue, blows smoke in its face, and drops ashes on its lap. You are standing there. What can you do? This is a problem that Zen Master Seung Sahn is fond of posing to his American students who attend his Zen centers. Dropping Ashes on the Buddha is a delightful, irreverent, and often hilariously funny living record of the dialogue between Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn