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Samurai Zen The Warrior Koans

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ISBN-10: 0415284651

ISBN-13: 9780415284653

Edition: 2nd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Trevor Leggett

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Samurai Zenbrings together 100 of the rare riddles which represent the core spiritual discipline of Japan's ancient Samurai tradition. Dating from thirteenth-century records of Japan's Kamakura temples, and traditionally guarded with a reverent secrecy, they reflect the earliest manifestation of pure Zen in Japan. Created by Zen Masters for their warrior pupils, the Japanese Koans use incidents from everyday life - a broken tea-cup, a water-jar, a cloth - to bring the warrior pupils of the Samurai to the Zen realization. Their aim is to enable a widening of consciouness beyond the illusions of the limited self, and a joyful inspiration in life - a state that has been compared to being free…    
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Book details

List price: $35.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/23/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 218
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.80" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Trevor Leggett rose to the rank of fourth dan in shogi, a major achievement since first dan is considered excellent for an amateur. He is the author of Zen and the Ways.

Introduction
Preface
Acknowledgments
Imai Fukuzan's introduction to Shonan-katto-roku
Extracts from Imai Fukuzan's introduction to Warrior Zen
Kamakura koans
The mirror of Enkakuji
Hachiman asks to hear the dharma
Saving Kajiwara's soul
Daikaku's one-word sutra
Bukko's no-word sutra
Daikaku's one-robe Zen
Bukko's loin-cloth Zen
The bucket without a bottom
Jizo stands up
Jizo coming out of the hall
The well of youth
Putting out the fire in Hell Valley
Rankei's shari pearls
The deer at the sermon
The snake round the Ginko tree
The dragon crest
The great Buddha of Hase
Numbering the waves on Yui beach
Tokimune's thing below the navel
The gate by which all the Buddhas come into the world
The rite of the Treasury of Space
How priest Isshin saved the ghost
Stopping the fighting across the river
The verse facing death
The Cave of Man in Mount Fuji
The Nembutsu Robe
Benzaiten of Enoshima
The god Hachiman
The rite of the wind god at Kamakura
The one-word charm of Enkakuji
Mirror Zen--Introduction--the Verses
The very first Jizo
The nyo-i sickle of Enkakuji
The cat-monster
The destruction of the toad at Kaizoji
The Kannon at Hase
Yakushi of a thousand forms
The snake at Itozaki
Bukko's age
The birth of the Buddha
'The world-honoured one has been born!'
The flower hall on Buddha's birthday
Sermon
The source of heaven
Wielding the spear with hands empty
The Kenchoji library
Sameness
The badger-headed Kannon
The basic truth of Buddhism
The divine snake of the Benten shrine
Reading one's own mind
The dharma-interview of Nun Mujaku
The night interview of Nun Myotei
The Buddha-heart relics
The Zen Goma rite
The one-word Heart Sutra
Isshin's rain-making
Bukko's death poem
The charm
Ashikaga Takauji's Jizo-Son
The gravestone with no name
The judgment of Yama
Really before the eyes
So
The picture of beauty
How the sutra of the Resolution of the Brahma-king's Doubt was put into the canon
The mark of the Brahma-voice
The mind, the Buddha; no mind, no Buddha
The Great Katzu! of Master Toden
The Great Katzu! of Master Torin
The paper sword
Heaven and earth broken up
Victory in the midst of a hundred enemies
Teaching Buddhism
Pasting the charm on the heart
Painting the nature
Not going, not coming
The way of the teacup
The scriptures of one hand
Daibai's shari-pearls
The lotus strainer
The copy
The gate-keeper's question
The Buddha's birthday
Tengai's heart-binding
The Lanka sutra of one word
One law, a thousand words
Ku-an's three questions
The sermon of Nun Shido
The Knight patriarch coming from the west
Sadatsune receives the precepts
The Great Katzu! of Ryuho
Daiye's verse on 'not'
Meditation of the energy-sea
Tozan's Who's-This?
The Who's-This? Sermon
Tanka's Buddha-burning
The four Dharma-worlds of a teacup
The diamond realm
Meeting after death
Maudgalyayana's mother
The iron bar of 10,000 miles
Freeing the ghost
Index of Chinese characters