By Thomas Cleary
This miniature booklet provides 1000 years of Zen educating for the trendy reader in a fashion that preserves the dynamic taste of those talks, sayings, and files of heart-to-heart encounters. From the earliest adepts to the final of the nice masters, The Pocket Zen Reader is a pocket-sized compendium of Zen at its most sensible. This assortment is edited by means of Thomas Cleary, the translator of over fifty volumes of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian, and Islamic texts.
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I have tried out my pendulum in humbler boxes with elementary faces, but never in a clock with two hands, let alone a masterpiece like the Zacharius Machine. I could have got it working, after a fashion, but a masterpiece is a masterpiece, and it sets its own standard of perfection. I might have gone to Geneva in search of a skilled clockmaker, but how could I dare, given my appearance? Even before Calvin came, Master Zacharius was remembered by many as a sorcerer, and those who hold such opinions are always among the first converts to any new fad - including Calvin's philosophy.
The dwarf took him to a room more brightly lit than the rest, which also looked out over the garden. It had a fire burning in the grate, but the chimney let out into the same covert, so its smoke would not have been easily visible as Jehan Thun had approached on the previous evening. There was a cookpot simmering beside the fire, and various items of game hung from a rack on the chimney-breast. The furniture was sparse but there was a sturdy table and two good chairs. Jehan sat down gladly, and ate a good meal.
The truth seemed to have taken firm hold of Jehan Thun's tongue; he could not seem to twist it. "I'm not a watchmaker," he confessed. "I'm a printer - or was. The mob was as anxious to smash up my press as to break my neighbours' heads. I can cast and trim type, and work in wood, and I have some skill as an engraver, but I haven't curled a spring or wrought a fusee since I helped my father in his shop as a boy. Times have changed, and it's the printing press that has changed them. " The dwarf looked at him long and hard then, as if he were following some train of thought to an unexpected terminus.
