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Grassroots Zen
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Many Zen Buddhist practitioners have come to question some of Japanese Zen's less democratic aspects -- from the strict, male-dominated hierarchies to the racial overtones. At the same time, modern American Buddhists often find it difficult to integrate zazen (seated Zen meditation) with lives of family, work, and social engagement. This book offers a fascinating guide to
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Hardcover, 176 pages
Published
June 1st 2001
by Tuttle Publishing
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A masterpiece. If you interested in western zen philosophy, you will not be disappointed.
I'm honestly still not sure how I feel about this book. On the one hand, I think the idea of divorcing Zen from its Asian roots is necessary if one's goal is to make Zen truly universal, but on the other hand, it could easily be interpreted as appropriation. To what extent are the structures of formal Zen study necessary for the study and to what extent are they simply artifacts of the millennia of Buddhist history. This book assumes there are core beliefs in Zen that can be applied outside the
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Boundless and free is the sky of samadhi.
Bright the full moon of wisdom!
Truly, is anything missing now?
Nirvana is right here, before our eyes;
This very place is the lotus land;
This very body, the Buddha.
Hakuin
No need for wishful thinking, hoping, or believing.
No need for self improvement or future heavens.
Free, living this ever moving, changing now.
Bright the full moon of wisdom!
Truly, is anything missing now?
Nirvana is right here, before our eyes;
This very place is the lotus land;
This very body, the Buddha.
Hakuin
No need for wishful thinking, hoping, or believing.
No need for self improvement or future heavens.
Free, living this ever moving, changing now.
Mar 09, 2010
Emprise
marked it as books-by-our-journal-contributors
Perle Besserman is in Volume 13 of Emprise Review. Find God Given Gifts here.
waktu ... ruang ... dan gerak
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