Robert Aitken

Encouraging Words (eBook, ePUB)

Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"The inspiration that guided monks and nuns in ancient times is our own deepest incentive as we establish our practice in a world that desperately needs new forms of kinship and love." -Robert Aitken Encouraging Words is a collection of short talks and brief essays that Aitken Rashi has offered his students at meditation retreats during the past two decades. They are arranged according to themes central to all spiritual seekers-attention, emptiness, coming and going, diligence, death and the afterlife, the sacred self, and the moral path. Aitken provides guidance on pursuing religious practice in a lay context, "re-casting the Dharma to include women, jobs, and family." He also charts his own quest to develop a set of moral codes in keeping with Buddhism's basic precepts and honoring the enormous ethical challenges faced in the twentieth century. Encouraging Words was nominated for the Tricycle Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Buddhism in America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307772510
• Artikelnr.: 39249176

Autorenporträt

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 Suen Roshi and Yasutani Haku'un Roshi. In 1959 he and his wife, Anne, established the Diamond Sangha, a Zen Buddhist society with headquarters in Hawaii. Aitken was given the title Roshi and was authorized to teach by Yamada Koun Roshi in 1974; he received full transmission from Yamada Rushi 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