Frederick Franck

Zen of Seeing

Revelations on the Act of Seeing by Drawing

My Eye is in Love

In this cruel era of killings, war and torture a powerful confirmation of what is still human in us humans.

Seeing/Molding the Human Face as Meditation

Ode to the Human Face

This is a book about life, not just about drawing from life. For forty years I have drawn the naked human body in all its variations on the human theme: white, black, male, female, fat, thin, young and old. It led me to doing ever less looking-at and ever more seeing--seeing humans in wonder and reverence. So that is the body you have to live in, has often gone through my head. the seeing and the drawing gradually became the single undivided act I called seeing/drawing...an ongoing meditation by hand and eye combined that taught me more about life than any psychologizing and philosophizing.- Frederick Franck

On Seeing/drawing the Human

Life Drawing Life

Franck, the author of Zen of Seeing, the classic guide, returns with more teachings and instructions.

Meditation in Action

Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing

Contains essays by many of the most important twentieth century Japanese philosophers, offering challenging and illumination insights into the nature of Reality as understood by the school of Zen.

An Anthology of the Kyoto School

The Buddha Eye

An Anthology of the Kyoto School and Its Contemporaries

This adaptation of several of the works of R.H. Blyth, one of the world's foremost translators and interpreters of Zen teachings until his death in 1964, provides a simple, straightforward look at the principles and values inherent in Zen thinking.

Selections from R.H. Blyth

Zen and Zen Classics

The story of the creation of two sets of stained glass windows. One is the 15 Stations of the Cross (Franck adds the resurrection to the traditional 14). The other is The Oxherding Parable based on the version of the Zen master, Kakuan. The book contains full color reproductions of both sets of windows by Franck, housed at his museum at Pacem in Terris when not on tour.

The Tao of the Cross, the Oxherding Parable and the Unkillable Human

Angelus Silesius

"Johannes Scheffler assumed the name Angelus Silesius on his leaving the Lutheran church to become a Catholic. He became enmeshed in the bitter controversies of post-Reformation Europe. Soon after his death, however, his masterpiece was claimed by Protestants and Catholics alike as their mystical classic." "Frederick Franck shows the poets macro-ecumenical significance in the essay that introduces his translation of these verses, and by adding a "running commentary" of sayings by the ancient Japanese and Chinese masters, with whom this Christian mystic shows a remarkable affinity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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