 | Mark Neuman, Michael Payne - 1987 - 196 pages
...in!" Thereupon Nan-in replied: "Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?" (Paul Reps, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones [Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 1957], p. 19, italics mine.) Zen "emptying"... | |
 | David A. Ramey - 1991 - 260 pages
...cup is full; no more will go in." Said the master, "Like this cup, you are full of your own thoughts. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?" Let us proceed, then, noting how hard it is to "empty one's cup" even if one wants something else poured... | |
 | John R. Suler - 1993 - 310 pages
...even after the cup started to overflow. When the startled professor pointed out the apparent error, the master replied, "How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?" Emptying one's cup means transcending the forms of theory and technique to enter the realm of formlessness... | |
 | Aelred Graham - 1994 - 256 pages
...overflowing cup; only to be told: "Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?" Monasticism is, in this respect, like Zen. One may learn about it from books and conversation; but... | |
 | Nathan Field - 1996 - 172 pages
...more will go in.' 'Like this cup,' said Nan-in, 'you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?' (Reps 1971). The emptying of the cup is the aim of the Zen 'koan' system of spiritual training. The... | |
 | Michael F. Hoyt - 1998 - 408 pages
...more will go in!" "Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?" (Reps, no date, p. 5) THE FLUIDITY OF THE SELF When self "empties out its cup" so that it is not full... | |
 | Jack Foster - 1996 - 226 pages
...more will go in!' " 'Like this cup,' Nan-in said, 'you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?' ' "The second characteristic of true artists and true scientists," Mr. Zukav says later, "is the firm... | |
 | Ray Ashford - 1996 - 262 pages
...more will go in!" "Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?" —PAUL REPS /en f/esh, Zen Bones, Raul Reps, comp. If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.... | |
 | David Edwards - 1996 - 260 pages
...will go in!"Like this cup,' the Zen master said.'yow are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?' Indeed, how can we ever hope to grow and learn and flourish, when our minds are overfull with the unyielding,... | |
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It is overfull. No more will go in!" "Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup? 
