{"id":37,"date":"2021-11-06T01:57:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T01:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boxwoodzen.com\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2025-12-02T08:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T08:24:23","slug":"zen-flesh-zen-bones","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/boxwoodzen.com\/?page_id=37","title":{"rendered":"Zen Flesh Zen Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>This section deals with observations on the book of koans <\/strong>           <strong>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/ZenFleshZenBones\/zen_djvu.txt\">Zen Flesh Zen Bones<\/a>&#8216;. It&#8217;s probably worth it to have a copy to reference if you&#8217;re interested. Those which I feel are self-evident haven&#8217;t been included.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6. People will desire you to desire. They killed Socrates for less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7. Tanzan went all in on unbeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8. The wandering monk, unattached, gives unweighed observations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9. If the thief&#8217;s desire were a curse, why would Ryokan desire to gift him the moon?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12. Significance is silence and actualization is movent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 and 14. Tanzan solves the world&#8217;s problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18. How to die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19. Kosen created his mistakes through his sense of social pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20. Jiun indulged in adoration of his knowledge, which was not even his, so his mother observed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forgive an author&#8217;s interjection but listen! I feel at home among the koans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25. Suiwo had been hearing the sound of one hand this whole time. The day before his suicide he detached from everything else and so was able to realize it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26. He who remains in silent mind may stay.<br>Perceptions are always funny in conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27. That blind man heard sincerity in Bankai, which was rare enough to report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28. Ask your treasure house about treasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28. Daiju&#8217;s treasure is in the experience of pursuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This section deals with observations on the book of koans &#8216;Zen Flesh Zen Bones&#8216;. It&#8217;s probably worth it to have a copy to reference if you&#8217;re interested. Those which I feel are self-evident haven&#8217;t been included. 6. People will desire you to desire. They killed Socrates for less. 7. Tanzan went all in on unbeing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxwoodzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxwoodzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxwoodzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxwoodzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxwoodzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/boxwoodzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/boxwoodzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxwoodzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}