Warm Smiles from Cold Mountains: Dharma Talks on Zen Meditation

by Anderson, Reb; Moon, Susan Ichi Su

• ISBN13: 9780962713873
• ISBN10: 0962713872
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Pgw

Summary

Warm Smiles from Cold Mountains explores the life of passionate commitment that lies at the heart of the formal practice of Zen meditation. Written with the Zen master, as well as the Zen novice, in mind, it is a collection of dharma talks given by Reb Anderson, former abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center. In comprehensible, inclusive language, Warm Smiles from Cold Mountains draws on Anderson's thirty-year experience as a Zen priest, exploring Buddhist yoga and psychology and the relationship of wisdom and compassion to the personal, social, and ecological crises of our me. At once inspirational and practical, this book bows to the past as it helps Forge a modern-day Buddhism that urges readers to "sit still in the middle of all living things."

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii	(2)
Foreword	xv
Susan Moon
PART ONE: PRACTICING DEEPLY Great Wisdom Beyond Wisdom Heart Sutra	3	(56)
ONE The Acupuncture Needle of Zazen	5	(6)
TWO A Ceremony for the Encouragement of Zazen	11	(10)
THREE A Field Far Beyond Form and Emptiness	21	(8)
FOUR Sitting in the Heart of Suffering	29	(6)
FIVE The Five Skandhas	35	(12)
SIX Just Sitting	47	(12)
PART TWO: EMBRACING ALL BEINGS The Sixteen Great Bodhisattva Precepts	59	(48)
SEVEN Speaking the Unspoken	61	(12)
EIGHT Life Is Not Killed	73	(12)
NINE The Home Altar	85	(4)
TEN Just This Person	89	(6)
ELEVEN Longing for Oneness	95	(4)
TWELVE Cooking in the Cauldron of All Beings	99	(8)
PART THREE: TIME AND SEASON Song of the Jewel Mirror Samadhi	107	(58)
THIRTEEN Warm Smiles From Cold Mountains	111	(6)
FOURTEEN Suchness	117	(6)
FIFTEEN Listen to the Body	123	(6)
SIXTEEN The Path of Peace Has No Sign	129	(10)
SEVENTEEN Father's Day	139	(12)
EIGHTEEN The End of Suffering: A Christmas Koan	151	(14)
APPENDIX	165
Notes	165	(4)
Appreciations	169