As with A BUDDHIST BIBLE, this introduction to the Buddhist practice of "Zazen" or sitting meditation has served many Western readers as a gateway to the wisdom of the East. One of the first Westerners to practice Zen in a traditional monastic setting, Roshi Phillip Kapleau, an American Zen master who studied in Japan for 15 years, before ...
If, as many have taught, Zen Buddhism aspires to the experience of unity with all things, the use of pain and discipline in advancing one's progress to satori or enlightenment is a core Zen practice. Kapleau walks the reader along the path that he himself has traversed as a Zen roshi--or teacher--over three decades, seeking satori in an American ...
This Ann Izard Storyteller's Choice Award winner -- completely updated and rewritten with expanded commentaries and two new sections -- brings together a fascinating array of stories from the Buddhist tradition.
When Roshi Philip Kapleau returned to the United States in 1966, after thirteen years of training in Japan with two of the country's greatest masters of Zen, he "did not come home empty-handed -- he brought us a living word of Zen," Kenneth Kraft has said. The first Westerner fully and naturally at home with Zen, Roshi Kapleau has made it his life ...
With essays, lectures, and accounts of personal experiences of enlightenment, this is a guide for all spiritual seekers and an excellent introduction to Zen Buddhism.
Drawing on the teachings of Eastern and Western religions with insights gleaned from his own Zen experience, world-renowned Zen Buddhist teacher Kapleau clearly and concisely explains the often avoided subject of death and dying as it relates to each of us. Black-and-white linecut illustrations.
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