false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174099116m/361898.jpg 361898 4 When Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's <i>Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind</i> was published in 1972, it was enthusiastically embraced by Westerners eager for spiritual insight and knowledge of Zen. The book became the most successful treatise on Buddhism in English, selling more than one million copies to date. <i>Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness</i> is the first follow-up volume to Suzuki Roshi's important work. Like <i>Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind</i>, it is a collection of lectures that reveal the insight, humor, and intimacy with Zen that made Suzuki Roshi so influential as a teacher.<br>The <i>Sandokai</i>--a poem by the eighth-century Zen master Sekito Kisen (Ch. Shitou Xiqian)--is the subject of these lectures. Given in 1970 at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the lectures are an example of a Zen teacher in his prime elucidating a venerated, ancient, and difficult work to his Western students. The poem addresses the question of how the oneness of things and the multiplicity of things coexist (or, as Suzuki Roshi expresses it, "things-as-it-is"). Included with the lectures are his students' questions and his direct answers to them, along with a meditation instruction. Suzuki Roshi's teachings are valuable not only for those with a general interest in Buddhism but also for students of Zen practice wanting an example of how a modern master in the Japanese Soto Zen tradition understands this core text today. 1340716 1999 Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai total:34|5:16|4:8|3:8|2:2|1:0| 34 140 48 4 4 0 false false Sat Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 27 14:04:23 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 15 23:15:38 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Thu Jun 28 11:22:06 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 08:34:05 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Wed May 30 08:07:08 -0700 2007 Thu May 31 08:43:16 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 15:38:58 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 01 15:39:38 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Fri Oct 16 01:43:14 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 01:43:22 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 21 18:58:30 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 18:58:30 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Sep 15 17:53:58 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 17:53:58 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Aug 29 12:02:55 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 12:02:55 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Aug 28 01:04:35 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 01:04:35 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 21 20:18:27 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 20:21:34 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Aug 17 17:04:26 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 17:04:26 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 11 20:14:29 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 20:14:36 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Aug 10 20:57:41 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 20:57:41 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jul 28 11:02:09 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 11:02:09 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Mon Jun 22 12:47:44 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 12:47:44 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jun 14 16:03:46 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 16:03:46 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 08 13:38:54 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 13:38:54 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri May 08 09:19:55 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 09:19:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Mar 31 14:53:46 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 14:53:46 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Feb 17 10:53:01 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 10:53:12 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=361898