The Art of Just Sitting Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza

by Loori, John Daido; Leighton, Taigen Dan

• ISBN13: 9780861713943
• ISBN10: 086171394X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-15
• Publisher: Wisdom Publications

Summary

Meditation is made easy in this celebration of a basic meditative art thateaches deep into Chinese and Japanese Buddhism for guidance on how to turnhe act of simply sitting into a deeply spiritual act. Original.

Author Biography

John Daido Loori is the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery and the founder of the Mountains And River Order. A Dharma heir to Taizan Maezumi, he is trained in the rigorous school of koan Zen and in the subtle teachings of the Master Dogen. He is the author of many books, including The Eight Gates of Zen, Riding the Ox Home, and The Heart of Being. Taigen Dan Leighton is a Zen priest and Dharma heir in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, as well as a scholar teaching at Berkley Graduate Theological Seminary. He is the editor, author, and translator of numerous works including Dogen's Extensive Record: A Translation of the Eihei Koroku.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface	vii
John Daido Loori
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Hongzhi, Dogen, and the Background of Shikantaza	1	(10)
Taigen Dan Leighton
Editor's Note	11	(2)
Guidepost of Silent Illumination	13	(2)
Hongzhi Zhengjue
Cultivating the Empty Field	15	(4)
Hongzhi Zhengjue
Zazengi: Rules for Zazen	19	(2)
Eihei Dogen
Fukanzazengi: Universal Recommendations for Zazen	21	(4)
Eihei Dogen
Zazenshin: Lancet of Seated Meditation	25	(16)
Eihei Dogen
Zazen Yojinki: What To Be Aware of in Zazen	41	(10)
Keizan Jokin
Shikantaza	51	(4)
Hakuun Yasutani
The Tenzo Kyokun and Shikantaza	55	(8)
Kosho Uchiyama
The Wholehearted Way	63	(4)
Eihei Dogen
No Dualism	67	(4)
Shunryu Suzuki
Commentary on Fukanzazengi	71	(24)
Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi
How to Sit	95	(6)
P.T.N.H. Jiyu-Kennett
To Live Is Just to Live	101	(4)
Dainin Katagiri
To Study the Self	105	(12)
Shohaku Okumura
On ``Silent Illumination''	117	(10)
Sheng-yen
Nanyue Polishes a Tile	127	(8)
John Daido Loori
Yaoshan's Non-Thinking	135	(10)
John Daido Loori
Suzuki Roshi's Practice of Shikantaza	145	(4)
Sojun Mel Weitsman
A Coin Lost in the River Is Found in the River	149	(6)
Zoketsu Norman Fischer
Just Sitting	155	(6)
Tenshin Reb Anderson
Will You Sit with Me?	161	(6)
Bonnie Myotai Treace
Yangshan's State of Mind	167	(10)
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold
Appendix: Foundational Texts
Satipatthana Sutta: The Foundations of Mindfulness	177	(10)
Shakyamuni Buddha
Bloodstream Sermon	187	(4)
Bodhidharma
The Fundamental Expedient Teachings for Calming the Mind That Attains Englightenment	191	(14)
Dayi Daoxin
Treatise on the Essentials of Cultivating the Mind	205	(14)
Daman Hongren
The Platform Sutra	219	(4)
Dajian Huineng
Jewel Mirror of Samadhi	223	(4)
Dongshan Liangjie
Who's Who	227	(6)
Permissions Credits	233	(4)
Index	237