The Zen doctrine of no-mind: The significance of the sūtra of Hui-neng (Wei-lang)

by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

Paperback, 1969

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Publication

Rider (1969), 160 pages

Description

Dedicated largely to the teaching of Hui Neng, this volume covers the purpose and technique of Zen training, and goes further into the depths of Zen than any other work of modern times. Here we find no reliance on scripture or a Savior, for the student isshown how to go beyond thought in order to achieve a state of consciousness beyond duality.

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LibraryThing member iayork
Zen Doctrine of No Mind: Of all the modern works on Zen, this book is unique. Through careful pacing, D.T. Suzuki generates the state of No Mind in the reader. To read this book is to not only understand it, but to directly contact the Zen Mind. This is not a hip or facile text, but one that stands
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on its own next to the great Sutras of earlier ages. Read as meditation, and meditating as one reads, this book is a mighty sword. Read for information alone, it will perhaps arouse the desire to meditate and attend to the art of mindfulfness
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LibraryThing member jasoncomely
'No Mind' doctrine is deep and dense.

Physical description

160 p.

ISBN

0090483715 / 9780090483716
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