"Bring Me the Rhinoceros is an unusual guide to happiness and a can
opener for your thinking. For fifteen hundred years, Zen koans have
been passed down through generations of masters, usually in private
encounters between teacher and student. This book deftly retells
fourteen traditional koans, which are partly paradoxical questions
dangerous to your beliefs and partly treasure boxes of ancient
wisdom. Koans show that you don't have to impress people or change
into an improved, more polished version of yourself. Instead you
can find happiness by unbuilding, unmaking, throwing overboard, and
generally subverting unhappiness. John Tarrant brings the heart of
the koan tradition out into the open, reminding us that the old
wisdom remains as vital as ever, a deep resource available to
anyone in any place or time.
"Here's a book to crack the happiness code if ever there was one.
Forget about self-improvement, five-point plans, and inspirational
seminars that you can't remember a word of a week later. Tarrant's
is the fix that fixes nothing because there is nothing to fix. Your
life is a koan, a deep question whose answer you are already
living--this is the true inspiration, and Tarrant delivers."--Roger
Housden, author of the "Ten Poems series
"Every life is full of koans, and yet you can't learn from a book
how to understand them. You need someone to put you in the right
frame of mind to see the puzzles and paradoxes of your experience.
With intelligence, humor, and steady, deep reflection, John Tarrant
does this as no one has done it before. This book could take you to
a different and important level of experience."--Thomas Moore,
author of "Care of the Soul and "Dark Nights of theSoul
""Bring Me the Rhinoceros is one of the best books ever written
about Zen. But it is more than that: it is a book of Zen, pointing
us to reality by its own fluent and witty example. John Tarrant has
the rare ability to enter the minds of the ancient Zen masters as
they do their amazing pirouettes upon the void and, with a few
vivid touches, to illuminate our lives with their
sayings."--Stephen Mitchell, author of "Gilgamesh: A New English
Version
"This book's straightforward honesty, clear writing, and
destabilizing insight have a profound effect. John Tarrant does
indeed bring on the rhinoceros and a host of other powerful but
invisible creatures, ready to run us down when we refuse to
acknowledge the fierce, awkward, and beautiful world we
inhabit"--David Whyte, author of "Crossing the Unknown Sea
"John Tarrant's talent for telling these classic Zen tales
transforms them magically into a song in which, as you read, the
words disappear as the music continues to echo in your mind and
make you happy. Mysteriously, like koans." --Sylvia Boorstein,
author of "Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake
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