Dropping ashes on the Buddha
by Seung Sahn · first published 1976
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…the western audience, his The Way of Zen is a fantastic book for that purpose. If you find the "theoretical/analytical" side of Zen interesting, look into Seung Sahn's teachings. I recommend the book Dropping Ashes on the Buddha. I've yet to come across more direct pointing that's in the form of text.
on “Zen Buddhism and Alan Watts” ↗"Dropping Ashes on the Buddha" by Zen Master Seung Sahn. I read it when I was a teenager and it helped me to overcome everyday drama and widely extend limits of my personality.
on “Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?” ↗Dropping Ashes on the Buddha https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/152640.Dropping_Ashes_on... Paraphrasing what one reviewer said on GR, it's a good read if you are taking life too seriously, or, the complete opposite. I didn't…
on “Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?” ↗…modern voice for a tradition where some of the foundational works such as the Platform Sutra are roughly a thousand years old. For other modern Zen voices, there are books such as Three Pillars of Zen, Dropping Ashes on the Buddha, Opening the Hand of Thought, and probably many others. (Albert Low is on my to-read list.) All of those are by authors who died before Thich Nhat Than, though. He also was an activist and an original…
on “Thich Nhat Hanh has died” ↗