Bring Me the Rhinoceros cover art

Bring Me the Rhinoceros

And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life

Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Bring Me the Rhinoceros

By: John Tarrant
Narrated by: John Tarrant
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

Bring Me the Rhinoceros is an unusual guide to happiness and a can opener for your thinking. For fifteen hundred years, Zen koans have been passed down through generations of masters, usually in private encounters between teacher and student. This book deftly retells more than a dozen traditional koans, which are partly paradoxical questions dangerous to your beliefs and partly treasure boxes of ancient wisdom. Koans show that you don’t have to impress people or change into an improved, more polished version of yourself. Instead you can find happiness by unbuilding, unmaking, throwing overboard, and generally subverting unhappiness. John Tarrant brings the heart of the koan tradition out into the open, reminding us that the old wisdom remains as vital as ever, a deep resource available to anyone in any place or time.

©2004 John Tarrant (P)2024 Shambhala Publications
Buddhism Philosophy Happiness

Listeners also enjoyed...

The Story of the Buddha cover art
Through Forests of Every Color cover art
Original Love cover art
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind cover art
Living Untethered cover art
The Tao Made Easy cover art
Letters to a Dead Friend About Zen cover art
The Gateless Gate cover art
Shōbōgenzō cover art
The Other Side of Nothing cover art
Opening the Hand of Thought cover art
Nothing Holy About It cover art
Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change cover art
Shambhala cover art
Ordinary Wonder cover art
The Heroic Heart cover art
No reviews yet