Janwillem van de wetering. Japan. A year in a Zen Buddhist monastery (№ 212258)

Doing Zen, focusing on Keane stories that the teacher gives to the student. Man tries to become one with the Coan, to shorten the distance between him and yourself, to get lost in it, yet all will not disappear, will not disappear and will not remain nothing but kōan, filled the whole world. If it is possible to achieve, followed by the enlightenment, an Epiphany. It's very simple, but in reality it is impossible or almost impossible, for if it were at all possible, all mysticism, and mysticism training would lose all meaning. But mysticism is as old as the world: "free people", "wise", "saints", "prophets", "adepts", "Arhats," "bodhisatva", "Buddha" came from various schools and techniques which destroy the ego, destroy "me".