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Battlefield
Sasaki Kojirō is the man destined to become Miyamoto Musashi's greatest rival and opponent in the most well-known duel …
Glimmering Waves
In a remote seaside village, an abandoned infant is left to the care of a reclusive old man …
Musashi endeavors to take on sword master Yagyū Sekishūsai, a man recognized by many to be the greatest swordsman of …
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.
No other English translation of this greatest of the Chinese classics can match Ursula Le Guin's striking new version. Le …
If Jack Kornfeild would have had a blog back in the day — and if this blog had categories, one of which was tagged "enlightenment" — and if Kornfeild had chosen to collect several years worth of posts tagged in this category from his imaginary blog and published these as a book … then it would probably have been something like this.
There is no clear direction or order in how the different chapters are structured and that is one of the book's strengths.
Flip through the book, choose any paragraph at random, read it and get reminded of what you already know deep within.
Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's …
The star-spanning story of humanity's colonization of other planets, Ursula K. Le Guin's visionary Hainish novels and stories redrew the …
In this beautiful and lucid guide, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh offers gentle anecdotes and practical exercise as a means …
