Zen Rising: 366 Sage Stories to Enkindle Your Days

Here are the beloved Zen awareness-raising stories, collected by the author of the award-winning Zen classic, Song of Trusting the Heart. Over a fifty-year period, the author selected stories from ancient documents and the oral tradition for this 400-plus page archival corpus. In what may be the most comprehensive published collection of Zen stories, the reader is taken back to the classical time when Sage and Seeker sat together and reflected on the deep truths these stories embody. With the Quest for Awakening being intrinsic to the human experience, these tales are just as vibrant today as when they were first told.Each of us is Sage and Seeker, Scholar and Fool. We find these aspects of ourselves mired in confusion,struggling with paradox, and ecstatic with flashes of enlightenment as page-by-page we take this beguiling Journey into the Void.