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  <name><![CDATA[Arthur Braverman]]></name>
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    <![CDATA[Living And Dying In Zazen: Five Zen Masters Of Modern Japan]]>
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    <![CDATA[<em>Living and Dying in Zazen </em>combines the life stories and teaching of five teachers—Kodo Sawaki, Sodo Yokoyama, Kozan Kato, Motoko Ikebe, and Uchiyama—associated with Antaiji monastery and the story of Bravermen and other Western students coming to grips with Zen, Japanese culture, and themselves. The deification of Zen teachers by their followers has been a problematic issue in American Zen; this book provides a healthy antidote, presenting four men and one woman who have lived and died in Zen within the rich context of their personal lives and their culture, so that we can fully understand what makes a Zen master in Japan.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Warrior of Zen: The Diamond-Hard Wisdom Mind of Suzuki Shosan]]>
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    <![CDATA[KEY TEACHINGS OF ZEN'S FOREMOST SAMURAI MONK<br/><br/>Suzuki Shosan is among the most dramatic personalities on the history of Zen. A samurai who served under the Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu in the seventeenth century, he became a Zen monk at age 41 and evolved a highly original teaching style imbued with the warrior spirit. The warrior's life, Shosan<br/>believed, was particularly suited to Zen study because it demand vitality, courage, and &quot;death energy,&quot; the readiness to confront death at any moment. Emphasizing dynamic activity over quiet contemplation, Shosan urged students to realize enlightenment in the midst of their daily tasks, whether<br/>tilling fields, selling wares, or confronting an enemy in the hear of battle. Long popular in Japan but little know to the West, Shosan is presented here to Western readers in a sparkling translation and with a comprehensive introduction that brings alive his unique and colorful teaching.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Mud and Water: The Teachings of Zen Master Bassui]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;The fourteenth-century Zen master Bassui was recognized as one of the most important Zen teachers of his time. Accessible and eloquent, these teachings cut to the heart of the great matter of Zen, pointing directly to the importance of seeing our own original nature and recognizing it as Buddhahood itself. Bassui is taking familiar concepts in Buddhism and recasting them in an essential Zen light. Though he lived centuries ago in a culture vastly different from our own, Zen Master Bassui speaks with a voice that spans time and space to address our own modern challenges in our life, and in our spiritual practice. Like the revered Master Dogen several generations before him, Bassui was dissatisfied with what passed for Zen training, and taught a radically reenergized form of Zen, emphasizing deep and direct penetration into one's own true nature. And also like Dogen, Bassui uses powerful and often poetic language to take familiar Buddhist concepts and recast them in a radically non-dual Zen light, making ancient doctrines vividly relevant. This edition of <em>Mud and Water</em> contains several teachings never before translated.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Mud and Water: A Collection of Talks by the Zen Master Bassui]]>
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    <![CDATA[This is a record of the dharma talks of the 14th-century Zen master Bassui. Bassui's central message is that the act of seeing one's original nature is Buddhahood itself.]]>
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