{"product_id":"a-zen-harvest-japanese-folk-zen-sayings-haiku-dodoitsu-and-waka-0865473285","title":"A Zen Harvest: Japanese Folk Zen Sayings (Haiku, Dodoitsu, and Waka)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0865473285\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Shigematsu, Soiku\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the vital aspects of traditional Rinzai Zen koan study in Japan is jakugo, or capping-phrase exercises. When Zen students have attained sufficient mastery of meditation or concentration, they are given a koan (such as the familiar What is the sound of one hand clapping?) to study. When the student provides a satisfactory response to the koan, he advances to the jakugo exercise-he must select a capping phrase, usually a passage from a poem among the thousands in a special anthology, the only book allowed in the monastery.One such anthology, written entirely in Chinese, was translated by noted Zen priest and scholar Soiku Shigematsu as A Zen Forest: Sayings of the Masters. Equally important is a Japanese collection, the Zenrin Segoshu, which Mr. Shigematsu now translates from the Japanese, including nearly eight hundred poems in sparkling English versions that retain the Zen implications of the verse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51907767304480,"sku":"NEW0865473285","price":22.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71DQGxatCpL.jpg?v=1782249326","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/a-zen-harvest-japanese-folk-zen-sayings-haiku-dodoitsu-and-waka-0865473285","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}