Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, the best-selling collection of the most popular enlightenment stories, anecdotes, and koans of Zen literature, introducing a generation of Americans to Zen. Included here are four Zen and pre-Zen classics:101 Zen Stories--anecdotes and enlightenment stories of the great mastersThe Gateless Gate--forty-eight Zen koans to awaken the enlightened mindThe 10 Bulls, or Ox-herding Pictures --depicting the ten stages of awarenessCentering--a four-thousand-year-old Sanskrit text that may well be one of the roots of Zen thought.