The Little Zen Companion

by David Schiller

Overview

A taste of Zen for the seeker and curious alike, here is a compilation of sayings, parables, haiku, koan, poetry, and other words. From both Eastern and Western sources, their maverick spirit points to a different way of looking at the world: directly, openly, joyously.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761188940
Publisher:	Workman Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date:	01/27/2016
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	4.60(w) x 4.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

David Schiller is an author of eclectic interests whose books include The Little Zen Companion, The Little Book of Prayers, and Guitar, among others. His books and calendars have more than 2 million copies in print. He lives in New York.
 

Read an Excerpt

This book doesn't presume to define Zen, but instead to offer a taste of Zen's way of looking at the world: where the best moment is now, where things

are

what they seem to be, where we see with the refreshing directness of a child and not through eyes grown stale from routine. The sayings, poems, parables, stories and other words that follow have been chosen for their power to suggest, and also for the surprising pleasures of their language. Some are serious, some irreverent, some beautifully evocative. Some might be puzzling--when words are used not to communicate an idea, but as tools to plant a wordless truth, some pretty strange things can happen. (from the author's introduction)

Excerpted from The Little Zen Companion. Reprinted with permission by Workman Publishing.