Publisher: Eunhaengnamu
396 pages
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About This Book
Easy but Profound Guide for Searching True Mind and Self The western
culture, having christianity as its matrix, has been suffered by side
effect of materialism with the progress of civilization these days.
Accordingly, people become interested in something spiritual and the
inner world more and more. Likewise, they also has been concerned about
Buddhism which regards the true-self and true-nature as important.
Especially, the conception of Zen is very popular to westerners, and the
word of 'zen' is used in a various field already. Many people in western
culture would like to learn what is zen and how to study it. The great
Zen Masters of Korean have visited to western world like the United
States to teach the Korean Son(Zen in Korean) in 1970s. Since then the
Korean Buddhism and its wisdom remain in existence until now. Among
them, Master Myo-Vong who opened several temples and shrine in America
has published his new book Cookies of Zen for the westerners who are
interested in Zen but hardly know how to study it. Cookies of Zen has
most important teachings and talks of Hye-Am, the Venerable Master in
Korea who also had visited to U.S. with Myo-Vong, Pojo, the founder
Korean Son in the 9th century, Kyung-Ho, the great master who cultivated
Korean Modern Buddhism, Boddhidharma or Dhama the initiator of Chinese
Ch'an (Zen) and the author Myo-Vong. These grand masters give lessons on
the basis of what is Hwa-Du (Catechism) and how to study it, and
enlighten the readers with various Hwa-Dus directly. Read the Hwa-Du and
meditate, then read the comments of great masters. The wisdom of this
book make people attain spiritual enlightenment not only whom believe in
Buddhism but also non-believer even the christians. You could have a
chance for being deeply moved and self-reflected. As you could catch
from the tile 'cookies of zen,' this book is written easy and
comfortable so that westerners who aren't familiar the concept of the
oriental religion. Nevertheless, Cookes of Zen is not a kind of book you
could throw it after quick reading. It is a guide for emancipation and
workbook for the practice of mind, the spiritual training. The wisdom
Master Myo-Vong explained is simple but profound at the same time. You
read this book again and again, listen the question from you deep mind
continually. Then finally you could be spiritually awakened and find
your own Buddha in your inner world. What is Zen? Yelling without
tongue. What is Buddha? Talking mouth is the source of all sins. What is
the utmost word of all Teachings? Woon-moon said, "cookie."
About the Author
Master Shin, Myo-Vong was born in Korea in 1943. During difficult times,
he excelled academically and ascended to become professor of philosophy
at Dong-guk University. In 1966, Master Myo-Vong received the Tao from
Venerable Master Deok-San and, at the Venerable Master's suggestion, he
came to the United Stated in 1975. He opened several temples and shrines
in California, Texas, Alabama and Maryland, and introduced ancient
Buddist mind cultivation practive to Westerners.
Introduction
Preface
Forward
Prolegomena
1. Hye-Am : Formal Talks
2. Hye-Am : Patriarchal Hwa-du (Kona-An)
3. Hye-Am : Dharma Cross-Examination
4. Hye-Am : Informal Dharma Talk
5. Bodhidharma : On Lineage
6. Bodhidharma : On Mind Watching
7. Pojo : The Golden Teaching of the Mind Cultivation
8. Pojo : Sublime Functioning of True Mind
9. Kyung-Ho : Accomplishing Buddhahood
10. Myo-Vong : I and Thou
Epilogue
Index
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