Title: The Zen teachings of Jesus /
Authors: Leong, Kenneth S.
Publisher: Crossroad,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Jesus Christ Teachings.; Jesus Christ Buddhist interpretations.; Christianity and other religions Zen Buddhism
Abstract: "I left Jesus to search for the Tao when I was sixteen," writes Kenneth Leong. "Now I am forty and realize that I could have found the Tao in Jesus." This is an intriguing book that reveals how Zen philosophy parallels the core message of the gospel. It is the spiritual side of Zen, the art to trust and accept life that coincides with the core of the Gospel message. For power, dogma and doctrine were not Jesus' passion, but the mystery of life and the possibility of love. Sometimes people have overlooked the joy, the humor and the depth of Jesus' teachings -- often because they could not surmount the narrow confines of openness to the scripture's power to transform our lives.
Contents: TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Reading the gospels, Zen style -- What is Zen? The art of living -- What is Zen? The heart of the matter -- The magic kingdom -- Zen: the art of seeing -- The looking-glass universe -- The usual hell -- Faith -- My yoke is easy -- What defiles a man -- Resist not evil -- Love -- I am the way -- The beginning of a new paradigm.