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Hardcore Zen:punk rock, monster movies and the truth about reality |
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Warner, Brad
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| Date | 2003.09 |
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| Pages | 224 |
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| Publisher | Wisdom Publications |
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| Location | Somerville, MA, US [薩默維爾, 麻薩諸塞州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Includes index.
LCCN: 200311829 |
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| Keyword | Spiritual life -- 禪宗=Zen Buddhism=Zazen Buddhism; Spiritual biography -- United States;Spiritual biography -- Japan; |
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| Abstract | From Publishers Weekly
There's a Zen story about a teacher who holds up his finger，then reminds his student to look beyond the finger itself，to what the finger is pointing at-the moon. That's what this book does：it transcends itself-and with outrageous style. Warner，an early-'80s hardcore punk musician，discovered Zen in college，moved to Japan to make B-grade monster movies, and eventually became a bona fide Zen master by formally receiving "dharma transmission." Yet true to his punk spirit，he relentlessly demands that all teaching，all beliefs, all authority-including his own-must be questioned. ("Why should you listen to me? Who the hell am I?... No one. No one at all.") By turns wickedly funny，profane，challenging and iconoclastic-but always with genuine kindness-Warner devotes chapters to some common Zen notions such as the oneness of reality ("Why Gene Simmons Is Not a Zen Master")，reincarnation ("In My Next Life I Want to Come Back as a Pair of Lucy Liu's Panties") and the vital importance of the present moment ("Eating a Tangerine is Real Enlightenment"). Yet this is no litany of Zen orthodoxy designed for study. By liberally sharing anecdotes from his own life as a down-and-out punk rocker and maker of monster movies, Warner constantly focuses on the importance of a direct experience of reality in all its rawness over adherence to any set of beliefs-even Zen ones. Entertaining，bold and refreshingly direct，this book is likely to change the way one experiences other books about Zen-and maybe even the way one experiences reality.
(Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information，Inc.) |
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| ISBN | 086171380X (pbk. : alk paper) |
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| Hits | 376 |
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| Created date | 2003.08.05
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