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Author Suzuki, Shunryū, 1904-1971.

Title Branching streams flow in the darkness : Zen talks on the Sandokai / Shunryu Suzuki ; edited by Mel Weitsman and Michael Wenger
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 191 pages)
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Sekito Kisen and the Sandokai -- Notes to The Reader -- The Sandokai -- First Talk. Things-As-It-Is -- Second Talk. Warm Hand to Warm Hand -- Third Talk. Buddha Is Always Here -- Fourth Talk. The Blue Jay Will Come Right into Your Heart -- Fifth Talk. Today We May Be Very Happy, and the Next Day We Don't Know What Will Happen to Us -- Sixth Talk. The Boat Is Always Moving -- Seventh Talk. Without Any Idea of Attainment, Just to Sit Is Our Way -- Eighth Talk. Within Light There Is Utter Darkness -- Ninth Talk. The Willow Tree Cannot Be Broken by the Snow -- Tenth Talk. Su¤ering Is a Valuable Thing -- A short talk during zazen -- Eleventh Talk. We Should Not Stick to Words or Rules Too Much -- Twelfth Talk. Do Not Pass Your Days and Nights in Vain -- Talk given to a visiting class -- THE SANDOKAI. Compiled Translation by Suzuki Roshi -- LINEAGE CHART OF TEACHERS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT
Summary The 'Sandokai', a poem by the 8th-century Zen master Sekito Kisen is the subject of this collection of lectures. Included with the lectures are student questions and Suzuki Roshi's answers, along with a meditation instruction
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Subject Shitou, 700-791. Tsʻan tʻung chʻi
Zen Buddhism -- Doctrines
RELIGION -- Buddhism -- General.
Zen Buddhism -- Doctrines
Form Electronic book
Author Weitsman, Mel
Wenger, Michael, 1947-
Shitou, 700-791. Tsʻan tʻung chʻi. English
ISBN 9780520936232
052093623X
1280095008
9781280095009
1597345105
9781597345101
9786613520432
6613520438