Sitting with Koans: Essential Writings on Zen Koan Introspection
"Sitting with Koansprovides an excellent start toward such understanding, offering the reader--whether veteran meditator, inquiring novice, or simply interested observer--a careful and well-organized presentation of classic and modern source materials on many aspects of traditional koan work." (from the foreword by Thomas Yuho Kirchner)"Roshi Daido Loori has provided us with a valuable tool for appreciating the living tradition of koan study." (Gerry Shishin Wick, author of The Book of Equanimity)"A handy compendium of some of the most important writings on the topic by scholars and Zen masters." (Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly)"This is a remarkable collection of essays and sermons by eminent scholars and leading Zen masters covering a full range of historical materials and diverse approaches in the formation of koan studies in China and Japan, as well as commentary on numerous specific cases. One volume brilliantly put together by a premier modern interpreter of koans, John Daido Loori, illuminates both issues of historical development and the discovery of contemporary meaning and application in religious practice." (Professor Steven Heine, editor of The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts)