As a collection of excerpts from a number of Zen Buddhist saying compilationgs in the Tang and Song dynasties, this book highlights more than seventy Zen practitioners with their charismatic speeches and dialogues. Of the 100 excerpts,some are olain and humorous, catering to the popular taste; some others feature ethereal, lofty, or thought-provoking visions. The simple and plain ones may be of rather higher philosophy while the irrelevant riposters turn out to be gems under the hide. The absence of wods in some cases carries across the knowing mind so that the addressees might come to their own epiphany. All those features represent to the utmost the Zen philosophy and its dialogiacal art.
