{"product_id":"9780865473287","title":"Zen Harvest","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the vital aspects of traditional Rinzai Zen koan study in Japan is jakugo, or capping-phrase exercises. When Zen students have attained sufficient mastery of meditation or concentration, they are given a koan (such as the familiar \"What is the sound of one hand clapping?\") to study. When the student provides a satisfactory response to the koan, he advances to the jakugo exercise-he must select a \"capping phrase,\" usually a passage from a poem among the thousands in a special anthology, the only book allowed in the monastery. One such anthology, written entirely in Chinese, was translated by noted Zen priest and scholar Soiku Shigematsu as A Zen Forest: Sayings of the Masters. Equally important is a Japanese collection, the Zenrin Segoshu, which Mr. Shigematsu now translates from the Japanese, including nearly eight hundred poems in sparkling English versions that retain the Zen implications of the verse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Soiko Shigematsu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52712423457086,"sku":"9780865473287","price":572.15,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/files\/9780865473287.jpg?v=1765289781","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780865473287","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}