Product Description: For centuries, Zen monks in Japan have used the traditions of ink painting and poetry to aid them in meditation and express their insights. Zen by the Brush offers modern readers a simple, quick, and fun way to relax with Zen art...read more

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Brings together the artistic achievements of Japanese monks, from calligraphic poems to abstract paintings to often humorous portraits of the Zen patriarch, many published for the first time, and explains their foundation in Zen philosophy. Reprint. NYT.

Encourages a detailed perception of the world that improves awareness as well as drawing skills, and includes Zen stories, quotations, proverbs, and anecdotes

Product Description: This book is about emptiness and silence—the mind-expanding emptiness of Zen painting, and the reverberating silence of haiku poetry. Through imaginative participation in the visions of painters and poets, its readers are led to the realization that, in the author's words, "emptiness, silence, is not nothingness, but fullness...read more

Product Description: This work is the first to deal with Zen painting comprehensively as a category of art in its own right. Not, of course, that a knowledge of Zen is necessary to appreciate it; seen quite simply as a collection of ink paintings, it is superbly enjoyable...read more