The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki Illustrated by Zenchu Sato Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc. Boston Rutland, Vermont Tokyo < previous page page_ii next page > …
With the 1960’s and the coming of age of a new generation radicalized by the Vietnam war and psychotropic drugs, what had been churning underneath for decades broke out in a glorious and exhilarating spray. In my Introduction to Zen Buddhism (published 1934), an outline of Zen teaching is sketched, and in The Training of the Zen Monk (1934) a description of the Meditation Hall and its life is given. But the Zen teacher is also an ordinary, conditioned human being, simply a person, however much they have realized of Zen. There were centuries of tradition behind this prodigious failure to communicate.
In the morning he presented Bodhidharma with his severed arm as a token of his seriousness. The story tells us two things: first, although the Buddha taught many true and useful teachings and techniques, the essence of what he taught is simple and ineffable. (Buddhism had by then been known in China for about 400 years.)
)Zen Buddhism is a stripped-down, determined, uncompromising, cut-to-the-chase, meditation-based Buddhism that takes no interest in doctrinal refinements.
The disciple stood outside in the snow all night long. Introduction.
Only Mahakasyapa broke into a smile.
What is Zazen? Each culture has produced a tradition that is recognizable as Zen, but differs slightly from all the others. The student presents their understanding of the koan (however lame it may be) and receives a response from the teacher (however understated it may be) that reorients the search.Although the Zen teacher must embody Zen and express it in all their words and deeds, a Zen teacher is not exactly a guru, a Buddha archetype at the center of a student’s practice.
My own teacher once made me a calligraphy that read, “I have nothing to give you but my Zen spirit.” Although the “Zen spirit” may be hard to define, measure and explicitly verify, it can be appreciated when you feel it. In the West, however, most Zen practitioners are not monastics. Everyone was silent. The object is to inform the reader of the various literary materials relating to the Everything and nothing. When Buddhism spread over Central Asian trade routes to China, all this material came at once. It was an exciting and confusing time, perhaps unprecedented in the history of world religions.In China, Zen eventually became the only Buddhist school, inclusive of all the others, so contemporary Ch’an includes many faith-based Mahayana practices that existed initially in other Buddhist schools, especially faith in and repetition of the name of Amida Buddha, the savior Buddha who will ensure rebirth in an auspicious heaven to those who venerate him.Within each of the Asian Zen traditions there are several schools, and within schools the styles of individual teachers often differ greatly. I now entrust it to Mahakasyapa.”Shocked, the emperor imperiously asked, “Who addresses me thus?”It was typical in the early days of the transmission of Zen to the West for teachers of different lineages to be scornful of each other. To be sure, respect for and confidence in the teacher is essential if one is to undergo the transformation in consciousness that Zen promises. (Though wordless understanding may seem a bit mystical and precious, it’s not really so strange. If, however, you are looking for more fulfilment either at work or in your personal life we may be able to help.
Porcelain with ivory glaze. An Introduction to Zen Training is a translation of Sanzen Nyumon, a key text by one of the foremost Zen teachers of the twentieth century.
Zen Training is a comprehensive handbook for zazen, seated meditation practice, and an authoritative presentation of the Zen path.The book marked a turning point in Zen literature in its critical reevaluation of the enlightenment experience, which the author believes has often been emphasized at the expense of other important aspects of Zen training.
It probably didn’t begin as a Zen wave at all, but rather as a reflex to the unprecedented violence the first part of the century had seen. After two devastating world wars, small groups of people here and there in the West were beginning to realize, as if coming out of a daze, that the modernist culture they had depended on to humanize and liberalize the planet wasn’t doing that at all. Source: Zen Flesh, Zen Bones _____ According to an ancient Indian fable, a mouse was in constant distress because of its fear of the cat.
Then it began to fear the panther.
Or you may come back home and continue your ongoing practice, going back to the larger training center from time to time for more monastic experiences.
Liberally flavored with doses of Taoism, Confucianism, and Chinese poetry, and written in informal language studded with Chinese folk sayings and street slang, much of classical Zen literature is built on legendary anecdotes of the great masters.
They take lay or priest vows, and even sometimes enter monastic training at one or more Zen centers for periods of time.
He repaired to a distant monastery, where, it is said, he sat facing a wall for nine years, in constant meditation. This is the essential point of Zen Buddhism.This shoot-from-the-hip Zen spirit appeals to the American mind, which is as iconoclastic and anti-authoritarian as it is religious.
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