Julian Daizan Skinner

Practical Zen (eBook, ePUB)

Meditation and Beyond

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Zen master Julian Daizan Skinner guides the reader through a sequence of meditation techniques that can safely lead even a complete novice through to advanced levels. Based on his own long experience of the Rinzai Zen tradition, as taught by the great seventeenth-century masters, Hakuin and Bankei, Daizan highlights the key points for success and addresses the pitfalls. Structured around a traditional teaching framework called "The two wings of a bird," Daizan clearly lays-out how these methods build and combine to create a transformative and sustaining practice.

The book contains an extremely useful section describing the experiences of western practitioners who have successfully applied this framework within the pressures of modern life. The final section features key source texts in translation, making the book a complete introduction and guide to Zen meditation. The work of a master, the book speaks at a deep level, with utmost simplicity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857013217
• Artikelnr.: 48569000

Autorenporträt

Beginning full-time monastic Zen in 1989, Julian Daizan Skinner has practiced and received Dharma transmission in the Soto and Rinzai traditions and been named successor of Zen Master Miyamae Shinzan, founder of The Zendo Kyodan Lineage. For more information, visit zenways.org.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Foreword by Miyamae Shinzan Gyokuryuji. Introduction:
What you need and what you don't need. PART I: The first 49 days. 1. The
physicality of Zen practice - Sitting on a chair. 2. Working with the
breath - Breathing meditation. 3. Uncovering your fundamental adequacy: the
Unborn - Unborn meditation. 4. Your Burning Question: Meditating with a
Koan - Meditation with the koan "Who am I?". 5. From sickness to health:
soft ointment meditation - Soft ointment meditation. 6. Cultivating guts:
energising your hara - Building your hara. 7. Standing strong: including
your legs - Energising the legs. 8. Activity's wheel runs free - Turning
the wheel of the law. PART II: The Rest of Your Life. 9. Bringing it all
together - Combined practice. 10. Roadmaps of your journey. 11. Putting it
into practice: case studies. 12. Joining the lineage. PART III: Key Texts.
13. Translations of key texts. 14. About Shinzan and Daizan Roshi.
Glossary.