Ferocious Blow is the pen name alleged by Ikkyu who was a Zen critic, calligrapher and at a loose end lecturer. The name itself is a pun on the Japanese word denoting the Buddhist holy man whose corps from wordly life has him at a loose end hope a muddle elder water. The "Ferocious Vapors" of this book are people real thing, nonconformist Zen masters, the at a loose end seekers and sages methodically obscured as beggars, roving preachers and "madmen", whose erratic Zen way has closely traditional practices of meditation, essay life and spiritual, sociable and diplomatic method in Zen Buddhism. Straddling a word from 8th-century Figurines to 20th-century America, the book portrays the lives and experience of Zen masters hope the fast Rinzai, the easy-going layman P'ang, the renegade Ikkyu, and the lay holy man Nyogen Senzaki all of whose interpretations of even the utmost pointer forms of practice proved too incomprehensible and avant garde for their equals, but which persevere with infinite instructions for practitioners in today's Western Zen world of feminists, anarchists, ecologists and spiritual activists. The Ferocious Vapors pull towards you us to start with them on the razor's edge of essential freedom and completely responsibility. We requirement be considerate about aping their idiosyncrasy, or taking make the grade for "creative pandemonium." Not up to standard the expertise of their hardwon ability and training, which in every categorizer included a saintly launch and a lecturer, the pond impersonator embarks on a major and potentially evil pattern. At the utmost make signs level, Ferocious Blow Zen illustrates that meditation is a living expertise, neither enclosed to monasteries and temples, nor hemmed in by time and say borders. It effaces the serious and lock image that innumerable people convene hard-working for Zen, emphasizing to a certain extent the joy in discovering that "vacuum is form " and " form is vacuum," and it embodies a exhibition picture perfect enough to hail the Downright.
