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We were told that the internet would dematerialize society and decrease energy use. Contrary to this projection, it has become …
To Live by the Sword
What does a man do after he accomplishes the impossible and lives to survive? Musashi …
Master of Japanese horror manga Junji Ito presents a series of hissterical tales chronicling his …
Amazing comic. Will read again.
Confrontation
Musashi has returned to Kyoto one year after he last attempted to take on the mighty Yoshioka School, and …
Battlefield
Sasaki Kojirō is the man destined to become Miyamoto Musashi's greatest rival and opponent in the most well-known duel …
The Distant Ocean
In the aftermath of the bloody Battle of Sekigahara, Sasaki Kojirō, the man destined to be Musashi's …
"Junji Ito meets Mary Shelley! The master of horror manga bends all his skill into bringing the anguished and solitary …
Musashi endeavors to take on sword master Yagyū Sekishūsai, a man recognized by many to be the greatest swordsman of …
Glimmering Waves
In a remote seaside village, an abandoned infant is left to the care of a reclusive old man …
Enlightenment
Musashi sets out for Nara intent on challenging the warrior monks of legendary Hozoin Temple. But Musashi's growing feelings …
Abandon your treasured delusions and hit the road with one of the most important Zen …
Kōdō Sawaki embodied the stereotypical Japanese Zen master. Hard but fair, sharp in mind and tongue. His language was short and concise and very easy to quote. His disciple, Kosho Uchiyama, was the opposite. A gentle bookworm who, despite the title of Zen master, always retained his own nervousness and shyness. Uchiyama was in turn the teacher of the currently active Zen teacher Shohaku Okumura, who more radiates the energy of an insightful and forgiving relative, possessing "grandmother mind" as this wisdom is sometimes called in the Zen tradition.
This lineage of teachers and students all contribute to this excellent book. Each chapter opens with a short lesson from Sawaki, often baffling in its blunt simplicity, which is then expanded and interpreted by the more academic Uchiyama. Finally, Okumura reflects on both of these and offers comments aimed at today's readers.
This format works really well, with the three levels …
Kōdō Sawaki embodied the stereotypical Japanese Zen master. Hard but fair, sharp in mind and tongue. His language was short and concise and very easy to quote. His disciple, Kosho Uchiyama, was the opposite. A gentle bookworm who, despite the title of Zen master, always retained his own nervousness and shyness. Uchiyama was in turn the teacher of the currently active Zen teacher Shohaku Okumura, who more radiates the energy of an insightful and forgiving relative, possessing "grandmother mind" as this wisdom is sometimes called in the Zen tradition.
This lineage of teachers and students all contribute to this excellent book. Each chapter opens with a short lesson from Sawaki, often baffling in its blunt simplicity, which is then expanded and interpreted by the more academic Uchiyama. Finally, Okumura reflects on both of these and offers comments aimed at today's readers.
This format works really well, with the three levels of interpretation representing how the Buddha's teachings are passed down from generation to generation, something central in the Zen tradition and key to its survival.
