The Hsin-Hsin Ming consists of 73 Zen sayings by the third Chinese patriarch, Seng Ts'an. English translations are printed here with commentaries on each by Dick Higgins. The Hsin-Hsin Ming sayings are often vague, and Higgins's comments are contrastingly concrete. But not always; sometimes the comments take off from the text, point away from it, back to it, give an example, maybe contradict it. Overall? Plenty to think about.--Andrew Russ
This review originally appeared in TapRoot Reviews #4,
Contact the editor, luigi-bob drake, at Burning Press
Copyright Burning Press 1994, 1995.