{"product_id":"shigematsu-soiku-a-zen-harvest-9780865473287","title":"A Zen Harvest","description":"One of the vital aspects of traditional Rinzai Zen koan study in Japan is jakugo, or capping-phrase exercises. When Zen students have attained sufficient mastery of meditation or concentration, they are given a koan (such as the familiar \"What is the sound of one hand clapping?\") to study. When the student provides a satisfactory response to the koan, he advances to the jakugo exercise-he must select a \"capping phrase,\" usually a passage from a poem among the thousands in a special anthology, the only book allowed in the monastery. One such anthology, written entirely in Chinese, was translated by noted Zen priest and scholar Soiku Shigematsu as A Zen Forest: Sayings of the Masters. Equally important is a Japanese collection, the Zenrin Segoshu, which Mr. Shigematsu now translates from the Japanese, including nearly eight hundred poems in sparkling English versions that retain the Zen implications of the verse.","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53684827324758,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780865473287_1.jpg?v=1778853887","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/shigematsu-soiku-a-zen-harvest-9780865473287","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}