Eloquent silence : Nyogen Senzaki's Gateless gate and other previously unpublished teachings and letters / edited and introduced by Roko Sherry Chayat ; foreword by Eido Shimano
- Bib ID:
- 4505457
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- Book
- Author:
- Senzaki, Nyogen
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- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Boston : Wisdom Publications, 2008
- xiv, 433 p. : ill. ports. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0861715594
- 9780861715596
- Summary:
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"The most comprehensive collection available of Nyogen Senzaki's brilliant teachings, Eloquent Silence brings new depth and breadth to our knowledge and appreciation of this historic figure. It makes available for the first time his complete commentaries on the Gateless Gate, one of the most important and beloved of all Zen texts, as well as on koans from the Blue Rock Annals and the Book of Equanimity. Amazingly, some of these commentaries were written while Senzaki was detained at an internment camp during WWII. Also included are rare photographs, poems reproduced in Senzaki's beautiful calligraphy and accompanied by his own translations, and transcriptions of his talks on Zen, esoteric Buddhism, the Lotus Sutra, what it means to be a Buddhist monk, and other subjects. Roko Sherry Chayat has edited Nyogen Senzaki's words with sensitivity and grace, retaining his wry, probing style yet bringing clarity and accessibility to these remarkably contemporary teachings."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Foreword by Eido Shimano xiii
- Introduction by Roko Sherry Chayat 1
- Acknowledgments 23
- Photographs 27
- Commentaries on the Gateless Gate 35
- Introductory Comments 37
- Mumon?s Introduction 40
- Case One: Joshu?s Dog 43
- Case Two: Hyakujo?s Fox 47
- Case Three: Gutei?s Finger 51
- Case Four: A Beardless Foreigner 54
- Case Five: Kyogen?s Man in a Tree 57
- Case Six: Buddha Twirls a Flower 60
- Case Seven: Joshu?s ?Wash Your Bowl? 63
- Case Eight: Keichu?s Wheel 67
- Case Nine: A Buddha before History 70
- Case Ten: Seizei Alone and Poor 74
- Case Eleven: Joshu Examines a Hermit Monk in Meditation 77
- Case Twelve: Zuigan Calls His Own Master 80
- Case Thirteen: Tokusan Holds His Bowls 83
- Case Fourteen: Nansen Cuts the Cat in Two 87
- Case Fifteen: Tozan?s Three Blows 91
- Case Sixteen: The Bell and the Ceremonial Robe 94
- Case Seventeen: The Three Calls of the Emperor?s Teacher 97
- Case Eighteen: Tozan?s Three Pounds 100
- Case Nineteen: Everyday Life Is the Path 104
- Case Twenty: The Man of Great Strength 107
- Case Twenty-one: Dried Dung 110
- Case Twenty-two: Kashyapa?s Preaching Sign 113
- Case Twenty-three: Think Neither Good, Nor Not-Good 116
- Case Twenty-four: Without Speech, Without Silence 121
- Case Twenty-five: Preaching from the Third Seat 124
- Case Twenty-six: Two Monks Roll Up the Screen 127
- Case Twenty-seven: It Is Not Mind,
- It Is Not Buddha, It Is Not Things 130
- Case Twenty-eight: Ryutan Blows Out the Candle 133
- Case Twenty-nine: Not the Wind, Not the Flag 137
- Case Thirty: This Mind Is Buddha 141
- Case Thirty-one: Joshu Investigates 144
- Case Thirty-two: A Philosopher Asks Buddha 147
- Case Thirty-three: This Mind Is Not Buddha 151
- Case Thirty-four: Wisdom Is Not the Path 154
- Case Thirty-five: Two Souls 158
- Case Thirty-six: Meeting a Master on the Road 163
- Case Thirty-seven: The Cypress Tree in the Garden 166
- Case Thirty-eight: A Buffalo Passes through an Enclosure 169
- Case Thirty-nine: Ummon?s Off the Track 172
- Case Forty: Tipping Over a Water Vessel 175
- Case Forty-one: Bodhidharma Pacifies the Mind 178
- Case Forty-two: The Woman Comes Out from Meditation 182
- Case Forty-three: Shuzan?s Short Staff 185
- Case Forty-four: Basho?s Staff 188
- Case Forty-five: Who Is It? 191
- Case Forty-six: Proceed from the Top of the Pole 194
- Case Forty-seven: The Three Barriers of Tosotsu 197
- Case Forty-eight: One Path of Kempo 200
- Amban?s Addition 203
- Commentaries on the
- Blue Rock Collection 207
- Case One: I Know Not 209
- Case Two: The Ultimate Path 211
- Case Eight: Suigan?s Eyebrows 213
- Case Twelve: Tozan?s Three Pounds of Flax 216
- Case Twenty-two: Seppo?s Cobra 218
- Commentaries on the
- Book of Equanimity 221
- Introduction 223
- Chapter One: Buddha Takes His Preaching Seat 226
- Chapter Two: Bodhidharma Walks Out from Samskrita 229
- Dharma Talks and Essays 235
- An Ideal Buddhist 237
- A Meeting with Sufi Master Hazrat Inayat Khan 242
- Seven Treasures, Part One 244
- Seven Treasures, Part Two 250
- Seven Treasures, Part Three 254
- The Ten Stages of Consciousness 258
- Emancipation 261
- How to Study Buddhism 266
- Zen Buddhism in the Light of Modern Thought 269
- Buddhism and Women 273
- Obaku?s Transmission of Mind, Part One 277
- Obaku?s Transmission of Mind, Part Two 280
- Obaku?s Transmission of Mind, Part Three 282
- Obaku?s Transmission of Mind, Part Four 286
- Esoteric Buddhism in Japan 289
- Shingon Teachings 296
- What Is Zen? An Evening Chat 299
- What Does a Buddhist Monk Want? 305
- On Zen Meditation 309
- On The Lotus of the Wonderful Law:
- Introducing Soen Nakagawa 315
- Bankei?s Zen 322
- Calligraphies and Selected Poems 325
- ?Basho? 327
- ?Opening words of Wyoming Zendo? 328
- ?Evacuees make poinsettia? 329
- ?Autumn came naturally? 330
- ?In this part of plateau? 331
- ?This desert on the plateau? 332
- ?My uta (Japanese ode)? 333
- ?Those who live without unreasonable desires? 334
- ?The mother was named an enemy-alien? 335
- ?Naked mountains afar!? 336
- ?No spring in this plateau? 337
- ?Closing the meditation hall? 338
- ?Bodhidharma? 339
- ?This world is the palace of enlightenment? 340
- ?Until now the radiant moon? 341
- Bodhidharma Commemoration 343
- Celebration of Buddha?s Birth 343
- Translations of Three Poems by Jakushitsu: 344
- Ryo-Ryo (Loneliness) Ko-Fu (Old Way) 344
- Free Hands 344
- The House of Evergreen: Sosui-An 345
- Commemoration of Soyen Shaku 345
- Thirty-third Commemoration of Soyen Shaku 346
- The Autobiography of Soyen Shaku
- (Translated and with Comments
- by Nyogen Senzaki) 347
- Correspondence 363
- To Soyen Shaku, December 25, 189? 365
- To Soyen Shaku, March 21, 1905 378
- The Purpose of Establishing Tozen Zenkutsu,
- April 8, 1931 382
- Article and Related Letters to the Editor,
- Second General Conference of Pan-Pacific
- Young Buddhist Associations, 1934 384
- Exchange with Myra A. Stall, July 11 and 16, 1956 402
- Notes 405
- Bibliography 409
- Index 00.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Chayat, Sherry
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