Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness Zen Talks on the Sandokai

Name: Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness Zen Talks on the Sandokai
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ISBN: 9780520232129

ISBN-10: 0520232127

ISBN-13: 9780520232129

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Shunryu Suzuki, Mel Weitsman, Michael Wenger

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When Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind was published in 1972, it was enthusiastically embraced by Westerners eager for spiritual insight and knowledge of Zen. The book became the most successful treatise on Buddhism in English, selling more than one million copies to date. Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness is the first follow-up volume to Suzuki Roshi's important work. Like Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, it is a collection of lectures that reveal the insight, humor, and intimacy with Zen that made Suzuki Roshi so influential as a teacher. The Sandokai--a poem by the eighth-century Zen master Sekito Kisen (Ch. Shitou Xiqian)--is the subject of these lectures. Given in 1970 at…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/13/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 204
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Sekito Kisen and the Sandokai



Notes to the Reader


The Sandokai


English Translation


Chinese Text and Japanese Transliteration



Things-As-It-Is



Warm Hand to Warm Hand



Buddha Is Always Here



The Blue Jay Will Come Right into Your Heart



Today We May Be Very Happy



The Boat Is Always Moving



Without Any Idea of Attainment



Within Light There Is Utter Darkness



The Willow Tree Cannot Be Broken



Suffering Is a Valuable Thing


A Short Talk During Zazen



We Should Not Stick to Words or Rules



Do Not Pass Your Days and Nights in Vain


Talk Given to a Visiting Class


We Are Just a Tiny Speak of Big Being


The Sandokai


Compiled Translation by Suzuki Roshi


Lineage Chart of Teachers Mentioned in the Text