Hakuin on Kensho The Four Ways of Knowing

Name: Hakuin on Kensho The Four Ways of Knowing
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ISBN: 9781590303771

ISBN-10: 1590303776

ISBN-13: 9781590303771

Edition: 2006 (Annotated)

Authors: Albert Low, Hakuin

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Kensho is the Zen experience of waking up to one’s own true nature—of understanding oneself to be not different from the Buddha-nature that pervades all existence. The Japanese Zen Master Hakuin (1689–1769) considered the experience to be essential. In his autobiography he says: “Anyone who would call himself a member of the Zen family must first achieve kensho-realization of the Buddha’s way. If a person who has not achieved kensho says he is a follower of Zen, he is an outrageous fraud. A swindler pure and simple.” Hakuin’s short text on kensho, “Four Ways of Knowing of an Awakened Person,” is a little-known Zen classic. The “four ways” he describes include the way of knowing of the Great…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/12/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.39" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Hakuin and the importance of awakening


On Koan study


Hakuin's practice


Hakuin's awakenings


Hakuin and Zen master Shoju


Hakuin's writings


On the diversity of the spiritual life


Knowing, knowledge, and wisdom


Knowing and the practice of Zen


The jug and the Clay


The origin of the idea of four ways of knowing


The four ways of knowing as four ways of asking, "who am I?"


Lay practice


Note on the layout of this book


The four ways of knowing of an enlightened person : Hakuin's text


The way of knowing of the great perfect mirror


The way of knowing equality


The way of knowing by differentiation


The way of perfection of action


Great faith, great doubt


The gate of inspiration


The gate of practice


The gate of awakening


The gate of Nirvana


Commentary on the four ways of knowing of an enlightened person


Are the three bodies inherent?


Great perfect mirror knowing


Knowing equality


Knowing by differentiation


The way of perfection of action


The importance of continuing practice after awakening


The gate of inspiration


The gate of practice


The gate of awakening


The gate of Nirvana