Customer Reviews
You are the One Mind - By: M. J. Cherrill, 18 Oct 2008 
This book is very good, & the first chapter encapsulates the whole thing. However, the point is that the One Mind is you. Or more accurately, the One Mind is your authentic experience of the entire universe - from your own place.
One's field of experience has no edges; the beginning of it cannot be remembered, & the end of it cannot existin experience. Nothingness can't be experienced.
The book is good, because the author had clear sight into his own being.
The Zen Teaching of Huang Po - By: Bob, 03 Apr 2007 This is one of two books that somebody lent me some 35 years ago as an introduction to Buddhism. While I found the other book Walpola Rahula's What The Buddha Taught accesible & informative Blofeld's Zen Teaching of Huang Po was incomprehensible. Luckily I was able to to go back & get tutorials from a man who turned out to be an amazing teacher.
I'm still reading it, there's no end to the depths of understanding that can be foundin this book. It does require patience & you might find the books of Wei Wu Wei (Terence Gray) helpful. You might try All Else is Bondage as a starting point. Or the Douglas Harding book 'On Having No Head'.
"Our original Buddha-Nature is,in highest truth, devoid of any atom of objectivity. It is void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious & mysterious peaceful joy - & that is all." from chapter 8, page 35.
If you are seriously interestedin Zen you will find this book an esssential companion.
A penetrating insight into Zen Buddhism by an early master - By: , 28 Mar 1999 The teachings of Huang Po bear re-reading many, many times. So compressed & dense is this work that it is impossible to absorb the full import of Huang Po's insights at first pass. I've read it at least a dozen times & continue to discover new insights. This is one of three books I'd want on a desert island.
Don't be put off by its compression.
This book was translated by John Blofieldin the 1950s & appears to remain the only English translation. I'd love to know what happened to Blofield, who apparently was livingin Thailand at the time he translated the work.
Unquestionably a classic - By: , 24 Aug 1996 Huang Po (d. 850) is perhaps one of Zen Buddhism's most brilliant Zen masters. This translation by John Blofeld of Huang Po's dialogues brings to light Zen Buddhism's most esoteric theme which concerns Buddha Mind. Different than the Western concept of Mind, Huang Po reveals the transcendent nature of Buddha Mind which traditional Zen Buddhists believe is the source of all things. This book is a must for anyone wishing to put their foot into the waters of Zen Buddhism. It is a classicin every since of the word. It always seems to say more than print is capable of expressing.
