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Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza »
Authors: John Daido Loori, Taigen Dan Leighton
ISBN-13: 9780861713943, ISBN-10: 086171394X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wisdom Publications MA
Date Published: July 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: John Daido Loori
Book Synopsis
This unprecedented and unparalleled volume offers essential guidance—from the most influential Buddhist masters, and from many of modern Zen's preeminent teachers—on one of Zen's two most central practices. The second edition contains three new translations by renowned scholar-practitioners. This is essential for readers interested in meditation or Eastern religion. There is no other book devoted solely to the very important Zen practice of Shikantaza (literally, "just sitting").
Table of Contents
| Editor's Preface | vii | |
| Acknowledgments | xi | |
| Introduction: Hongzhi, Dogen, and the Background of Shikantaza | 1 | |
| Editor's Note | 11 | |
| Guidepost of Silent Illumination | 13 | |
| Cultivating the Empty Field | 15 | |
| Zazengi: Rules for Zazen | 19 | |
| Fukanzazengi: Universal Recommendations for Zazen | 21 | |
| Zazenshin: Lancet of Seated Meditation | 25 | |
| Zazen Yojinki: What To Be Aware of in Zazen | 41 | |
| Shikantaza | 51 | |
| The Tenzo Kyokun and Shikantaza | 55 | |
| The Wholehearted Way | 63 | |
| No Dualism | 67 | |
| Commentary on Fukanzazengi | 71 | |
| How to Sit | 95 | |
| To Live Is Just to Live | 101 | |
| To Study the Self | 105 | |
| On "Silent Illumination" | 117 | |
| Nanyue Polishes a Tile | 127 | |
| Yaoshan's Non-Thinking | 135 | |
| Suzuki Roshi's Practice of Shikantaza | 145 | |
| A Coin Lost in the River Is Found in the River | 149 | |
| Just Sitting | 155 | |
| Will You Sit with Me? | 161 | |
| Yangshan's State of Mind | 167 | |
| Appendix | Foundational Texts | |
| Satipatthana Sutta: The Foundations of Mindfulness | 177 | |
| Bloodstream Sermon | 187 | |
| The Fundamental Expedient Teachings for Calming the Mind That Attains Enlightenment | 191 | |
| Treatise on the Essentials of Cultivating the Mind | 205 | |
| The Platform Sutra | 219 | |
| Jewel Mirror of Samadhi | 223 | |
| Who's Who | 227 | |
| Permissions Credits | 233 | |
| Index | 237 |
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