THE BOOK OF EQUANIMITY Illuminating Classic Zen Koans Gerry Shishin Wick FOREWORD BY BERNIE GLASSMAN Công Án Thiền In Zen training, koans are used to liberate students from their rigid, restrictive ways of viewing themselves and the world around them and to open their eye of wisdom. One literary wag facetiously said that koans are stories that Zen masters use “to blow their students’ minds!” Koan literally means “public case.”
