Bring Me the Rhinoceros

And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life

By: John Tarrant

Narrated by: John Tarrant

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 more than a dozen 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.

©2004 John Tarrant (P)2024 Shambhala Publications

Poetic Zen Wisdom

Stories rather than analysis - refreshing. Can both wake one up and soothe one into sleep.

Insightful koans

These are insightful koans that are good starting out in meditation for yourself. Useful insight into koan meditation.

Master Storyteller Refreshing Authenticity

While in recovery from surgery this audiobook has helped me embrace the pain, the boredom,and the unknown. I feel softer, lighter and content with who i am where I am how I am all right now as it is.

enjoyable

it provides a new perspective, but I feel like I'll have to listen several times.