"Aitken's title says it all. Encouraging Words will appeal to both beginning and advanced lay Zen students who seek to integrate their spiritual practice into everyday life. Curious readers will be rewarded, too. Here is a teacher both wise and practical in equal measure".--Honolulu Advertiser. Now in paperback.
"Aitken's title says it all. Encouraging Words will appeal to both beginning and advanced lay Zen students who seek to integrate their spiritual practice into everyday life. Curious readers will be rewarded, too. Here is a teacher both wise and practical in equal measure".--Honolulu Advertiser. Now in paperback.
ROBERT AITKEN (1917–2010) was first introduced to Zen in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. R. H. Blyth, author of Zen in English Literature, was imprisoned in the same camp, and in this setting Aitken began the first of several apprenticeships. After the war, Aitken often returned to Japan to study. He became friends with Daisetz T. Suzuki and studied with Nakagawa Sūen Rōshi and Yasutani Haku’un Rōshi. In 1959 he and his wife, Anne, established the Diamond Sangha, a Zen Buddhist society with headquarters in Hawaii. Aitken was given the title Rōshi and was authorized to teach by Yamada Kōun Rōshi in 1974; he received full transmission from Yamada Rūshi in 1985.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments xiii Introduction xv
WORDS IN THE DŌJŌ Introduction 1 The First Night 6 Coming Home 9 The World Does Zazen 11 Emptiness 14 Condition 17 The Single Point 22 Carry Your Practice Lightly 24 Attention 27 Coming and Going 30 Patience 33 The Sacred Self 35 Becoming Settled 38 Switch Back to Mu 40 Diligence 43 The Dark Night 48 Simple and Clear 51 Like a Dream 53 The Last Night 54 Afterword 56 Notes 57
WORDS FROM THE RŌSHI Introduction 63 The Middle Way 65 Using the Self 68 Ordinary Mind Is the Tao 73 Cycles and Stages 79 The Moral Path 76 Dreams and Archetypes 94 Impermanence 105 The Lay Sangha 107 Kōan Study and Its Implications 118 Integrity and Nobility 123 The Net of Indra 127 Nonviolence within the Zendō and Outside 131 About Practice 136 Death and the Afterlife 147 Notes 148
THE SYLLABUS Introduction 157 Lattice of the Dharma 161 Wu-men kuan: Case I The Zen Buddhist Sutra Book 168 The Gāthās 170 The Sutras and a Dhāranī 172 The Dedications and the Evening Message 180 Mealtime Sutras 185 The Jukai Ceremony 189 Rōshi’s Introduction 189 The Three Vows of Refuge 190 The Three Pure Precepts 191 The Ten Grave Precepts 191 Verse of the Rakusu 194 Dedication 195 The Sesshin 197 Daily Schedule 197 Leadership 198 The Three Essentials 200 Dōjō Percussion Instruments 202
A Glossary of Buddhist Terms and Usages 205 An Annotated Bibliography 224
WORDS IN THE DŌJŌ Introduction 1 The First Night 6 Coming Home 9 The World Does Zazen 11 Emptiness 14 Condition 17 The Single Point 22 Carry Your Practice Lightly 24 Attention 27 Coming and Going 30 Patience 33 The Sacred Self 35 Becoming Settled 38 Switch Back to Mu 40 Diligence 43 The Dark Night 48 Simple and Clear 51 Like a Dream 53 The Last Night 54 Afterword 56 Notes 57
WORDS FROM THE RŌSHI Introduction 63 The Middle Way 65 Using the Self 68 Ordinary Mind Is the Tao 73 Cycles and Stages 79 The Moral Path 76 Dreams and Archetypes 94 Impermanence 105 The Lay Sangha 107 Kōan Study and Its Implications 118 Integrity and Nobility 123 The Net of Indra 127 Nonviolence within the Zendō and Outside 131 About Practice 136 Death and the Afterlife 147 Notes 148
THE SYLLABUS Introduction 157 Lattice of the Dharma 161 Wu-men kuan: Case I The Zen Buddhist Sutra Book 168 The Gāthās 170 The Sutras and a Dhāranī 172 The Dedications and the Evening Message 180 Mealtime Sutras 185 The Jukai Ceremony 189 Rōshi’s Introduction 189 The Three Vows of Refuge 190 The Three Pure Precepts 191 The Ten Grave Precepts 191 Verse of the Rakusu 194 Dedication 195 The Sesshin 197 Daily Schedule 197 Leadership 198 The Three Essentials 200 Dōjō Percussion Instruments 202
A Glossary of Buddhist Terms and Usages 205 An Annotated Bibliography 224
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