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Laddar... Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice (urspr publ 1970; utgåvan 2011)av Shunryu Suzuki (Författare), Trudy Dixon (Redaktör), Huston Smith (Förord), Richard Baker (Inledning), David Chadwick (Efterord)
VerksinformationZen Mind, Beginner's Mind av Shunryu Suzuki (1970)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. The author presents the basics—from the details of posture and breathing in zazen to the perception of nonduality—in a clear way. Shunryu Suzuki gave me, finally, a real understanding of what meditation is like, and gave me reasons to try it. He is not an easy author to follow, and the translations may have been too respectful to his exact words, but the message is good. It was only after reading reviews and stories from his friends and students that I could understand the meaning of his text. When he wrote, "the most important thing is..." he meant "this is important here in this context." I Tried his methods, found I could sit for half and hour, did this for two months, decided to stop, but knew that now I could meditate in my own mind and could do this if I ever felt a need in the future. It is a very satisfying book. I recently re-read this. It's not what I'd call a fun or easy read (although there are some genuinely funny bits), but it is a very nice collection of talks on what's usually called the Soto school of Zen Buddhism. The emphasis here is not on satori or enlightenment, but on mindfulness and everyday practice. Even if you are not a practicing Buddhist, I think there is something just about every can learn from this book. Suziki-roshi was the founder of the San Francisco Zen Center, which includes Green Gulch and Tassahara; he is generally credited with establishing the practice of Zen Buddhism in the United States.
So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line of Shunryu Suzuki's classic. In a single stroke, the simple sentence cuts through the pervasive tendency students have of getting so close to Zen as to completely miss what it's all about. An instant teaching on the first page. And that's just the beginning. In the thirty years since its original publication, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind has become one of the great modern Zen classics, much beloved, much re-read, and much recommended as the best first book to read on Zen. Suzuki Roshi presents the basics-from the details of posture and breathing in zazen to the perception of nonduality-in a way that is not only remarkably clear, but that also resonates with the joy of insight from the first to the last page. It's a book to come back to time and time again as an inspiration to practice. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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