Encouraging Words Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students

Name: Encouraging Words Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students
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ISBN: 9780679756521

ISBN-10: 0679756523

ISBN-13: 9780679756521

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Authors: Robert Aitken

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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.

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/6/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Words in the Dojo


Introduction


The First Night


Coming Home


The World Does Zazen


Emptiness


Condition


The Single Point


Carry Your Practice Lightly


Attention


Coming and Going


Patience


The Sacred Self


Becoming Settled


Switch Back to Mu


Diligence


The Dark Night


Simple and Clear


Like a Dream


The Last Night


Afterword


Notes


Words From the Roshi


Introduction


The Middle Way


Using the Self


Ordinary Mind Is the Tao


Cycles and Stages


The Moral Path


Dreams and Archetypes


Impermanence


The Lay Sangha


Koan Study and Its Implications


Integrity and Nobility


The Net of Indra


Nonviolence within the Zendo and Outside


About Practice


Death and the Afterlife


Notes


The Syllabus


Introduction


Lattice of the Dharma


Wu-men kuan: Case I


The Zen Buddhist Sutra Book


Schedule of Services


The Gathas


The Sutras and a Dharani


The Dedications and the Evening Message


Mealtime Sutras


The Jukai Ceremony


Roshi's Introduction


The Three Vows of Refuge


The Three Pure Precepts


The Ten Grave Precepts


Verse of the Rakusu


Dedication


The Sesshin


Daily Schedule


Leadership


The Three Essentials


Dojo Percussion Instruments


A Glossary of Buddhist Terms and Usages


An Annotated Bibliography