Book description
Nautilus Book Award Winner
An intimate spiritual and literary journey exploring how ZenĀ koansĀ make us permeable to the joys and the anguish of this lifeāand to the primordial mystery we glimpse behind the veil of the everyday.
In Through Forests of Every Color, renowned Zen teacher Joan Sutherland reimaginesā¦
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1 author picked Through Forests of Every Color as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book is a lantern, shining light into all sorts of hidden spaces.
Joan Sutherland uses koans to undertake a spiritual and literary journey and shows us how to listen to the world and how to attend to our own lives.
A koan is a gate, and we often stop or feel imprisoned by habits and history on one side. Walking through the door is like taking a problem into a wide meadow. Suddenly, you see distant mountains, there are bees in the flowers, and you hear the water of a stream babbling over stones.Ā The voice of a cuckooā¦
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