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Inside the Grass Hut - Living Shitou's Classic Zen Poem (Hardcover)
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Inside the Grass Hut - Living Shitou's Classic Zen Poem (Hardcover)
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Enter the mind and practice of Zen: apply the insights of one of
Zen's classic poems to your life--here and now.
Shitou Xiqian's Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage is a remarkably
accessible work of profound depth; in thirty-two lines Shitou
expresses the breadth of the entire Buddhist tradition with simple,
vivid imagery. Ben Connelly's Inside the Grass Hut unpacks the
timeless poem and applies it to contemporary life. His book
delivers a wealth of information on the context and content of this
eighth-century work, as well as directly evokes the poem's themes
of simple living, calm, and a deep sense of connection to all
things.
Each pithy chapter focuses on a single line of the poem, letting
the reader immerse himself thoroughly in each line and then come up
for air before moving on to the next. Line by line, Connelly shows
how the poem draws on and expresses elements from the thousand
years of Buddhist thought that preceded it, expands on the poem's
depiction of a life of simple practice in nature, and tells stories
of the way these teachings manifest in modern life. Connelly, like
Shitou before him, proves himself adept at taking profound and
complex themes from Zen and laying them out in a practical and
understandable way.
Eminently readable, thoroughly illuminating, Inside the Grass Hut
shows the reader a path of wholehearted engagement--with the poem,
and with the world. Destined to become a trusted, dog-eared
companion.
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