Readings of the Gateless Barrier Travel From ministers to public servants

From ministers to public servants - they backed something that was illegal

this collection of electrifying and

) to a new economic concept for each letter of the alphabet

the dramatic wilderness of Thorsmoerk and the staggering power of the Godafoss waterfall

the importance of history and memory

Readings of the Gateless Barrier Travel From ministers to public servantsThe Gateless Barrier is one of the most cherished yet also one of the most enigmatic Chan or Zen texts of East Asian Buddhism. Compiled by the Chinese Chan master Wumen Huikai in 1228, it contains forty eight Zen stories of spiritual awakening called "public cases" or gong'ans (known as kans in Japanese and kongans in Korean). This book presents a new English translation with close readings and creative analyses of the Gateless Barrier from both