Publication
Imprint: Boston, Mass. : Wisdom Publications, 2004, Edition: 2nd Edition. OCLC Number: 985583193. Physical: 1 volume : x, 243 pages ; 23 cm. Features: Includes appendices: Satipatthana Sutta, (Bodhidharma) Bloodstream Sermon, Ta-I Tao-hsin (Dayi Daoxin) , Treatise on the Essentials of Cultivating the Mind, Platform Sutra (Sutra of Hui Neng), Jewel Mirrow of Samadhi (Tung-shan Liang-chieh), bibliographic references, contributor biographies, index.
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Meditation / Loori
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9780861713943
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Description: This unprecedented and unparalleled volume offers essential guidance--from the most influential Buddhist masters, and from many of modern Zen's preeminent teachers--on one of Zen's two most central practices. The second edition contains three new translations by renowned scholar-practitioners. This is essential for readers interested in meditation or Eastern religion. There is no other book devoted solely to the very important Zen practice of Shikantaza (literally, "just sitting").
Contents:
Introduction: Hongzhi, Dogen and the background of shikantaza / Taigen Dan Leighton --
Guidepost of silent illumination ; Cultivating the empty field / Hongzhi Zhengjue --
Zazengi: rules for zazen / Eihei Dogen --
Fukanzazengi: universal recommendations for zazen ; Zazenshin: lancet of seated meditation / Eihei Dogen --
Zazen Yojinki / Keizan Jokin --
Shikantaza / Hakuun Yasutani --
Ten Tenzo Kyokun and shikantaza ; Talk on wholehearted practice of the way / Kosho Uchiyama --
No dualism / Shunryu Suzuki --
Commentary on Fukanzazengi / Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi --
How to sit / P.T.N.H. Jiyu-Kennett --
To live is just to live / Dainin Katagiri --
To study the self / Shohaku Okumura --
On "silent illumination" / Sheng-yen --
Nanyue polishes a tile ; Yaoshan's non-thinking ; John Daido Loori --
Suzuki Roshi's practice of shikantaza / Sojun Mel Weitsman --
A coin lost in the river is found in the river / Zoketsu Norman Fischer --
Just sitting / Tenshin Reb Anderson --
Will you sit with me? / Bonnie Myotai Treace --
Yanshan's mind and environment / Geoffrey Shugen Arnold.
FY2017 /
Contents:
Introduction: Hongzhi, Dogen and the background of shikantaza / Taigen Dan Leighton --
Guidepost of silent illumination ; Cultivating the empty field / Hongzhi Zhengjue --
Zazengi: rules for zazen / Eihei Dogen --
Fukanzazengi: universal recommendations for zazen ; Zazenshin: lancet of seated meditation / Eihei Dogen --
Zazen Yojinki / Keizan Jokin --
Shikantaza / Hakuun Yasutani --
Ten Tenzo Kyokun and shikantaza ; Talk on wholehearted practice of the way / Kosho Uchiyama --
No dualism / Shunryu Suzuki --
Commentary on Fukanzazengi / Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi --
How to sit / P.T.N.H. Jiyu-Kennett --
To live is just to live / Dainin Katagiri --
To study the self / Shohaku Okumura --
On "silent illumination" / Sheng-yen --
Nanyue polishes a tile ; Yaoshan's non-thinking ; John Daido Loori --
Suzuki Roshi's practice of shikantaza / Sojun Mel Weitsman --
A coin lost in the river is found in the river / Zoketsu Norman Fischer --
Just sitting / Tenshin Reb Anderson --
Will you sit with me? / Bonnie Myotai Treace --
Yanshan's mind and environment / Geoffrey Shugen Arnold.
FY2017 /
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x, 243 p.; 24 cm
Description
Shikantaza--or "just sitting"--is one of the simplest, most subtle forms of meditation, and one of the most easily misunderstood. This peerless volume brings together a wealth of writings, from the Buddha himself to Bodhidharma and Dogen and many of modern Zen Buddhism's most influential masters, all pointing directly to the heart of this powerful practice. Edited by one of America's pre-eminent Zen teachers, this book is a rich resource for wisdom seekers and scholars alike.
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LibraryThing member William345
Just skimming this now. As usual the ancient pieces are the most beautiful and the most paradoxical. Skip however to the American masters and you begin to get readable prose. I like the volume and look forward to reading the elders at mind-numbing length.