Reddit reviews The Sound of the One Hand: 281 Zen Koans with Answers (New York Review Books Classics)
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Hakuin wasn't a Zen Master, he was a religious fraud: Sound of One Hand.
The OP is a new age troll:
>WanderingRonin is a multiple accounts alt_troll and self-anointed "internet guru" who stalks and harasses people who expose his self-certification scam and content brigading. He also claims to be in touch with "modern Masters", by which he means new age spiritualists. Best part: WanderingRonin77 defends the enlightenments of "sex predator lineages". He thinks his made up religion is "powerful and effective" though, and people who say it is made up are "afraid". He is only a little proud of his harassment.. He had been surreptiously editing and deleting comments to cover his tracks, but now he is bragging about it because the forum no longer takes him seriously.
Do you deny this is the copy to sell the book?
https://www.amazon.com/Sound-One-Hand-Answers-Classics/dp/1681370220
>When The Sound of the One Hand came out in Japan in 1916 it caused a scandal. Zen was a secretive practice, its wisdom relayed from master to novice in strictest privacy. That a handbook existed recording not only the riddling koans that are central to Zen teaching but also detailing the answers to them seemed to mark Zen as rote, not revelatory.
>For all that, The Sound of the One Hand opens the door to Zen like no other book. Including koans that go back to the master who first brought the koan teaching method from China to Japan in the eighteenth century, this book offers, in the words of the translator, editor, and Zen initiate Yoel Hoffmann, “the clearest, most detailed, and most correct picture of Zen” that can be found. What we have here is an extraordinary introduction to Zen thought as lived thought, a treasury of problems, paradoxes, and performance that will appeal to artists, writers, and philosophers as well as Buddhists and students of religion.
Haha that's awesome.
Is this the book you're talking about?
Or is it an article or book about the sex scandals?
Regardless, I wouldn't say he was confused either.
Just saying not every piece of metal sticking out of a board of wood is a nail. Sometimes it's a screw. But usually, if it looks like a nail, it's a nail and it needs a hammer.