The Ceasing of Notions: An Early Zen Text from the Dunhuang Caves with Selected Comments

Among The Writings From the Dunhuang Caves, discovered in the twentieth century, are the Zen equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls-ancient texts unknown for centuries, revealing a never-before-seen facet of Zen. The Ceasing of Notions is one such text. It takes a unique form: a dialogue between two imaginary figures, a master and his disciple, in which the disciple tenaciously pursues the master with follow-up questions that propel the dialogue toward ever more profound insights. And-as will quickly become clear - these questions prove to be none other than the reader's very own. Soko Morinaga brings alive this compact and brilliant text with his own vivid commentary.