Walking the Way : 81 Zen Encounters with the Tao Te Ching

by Rosenbaum, Robert Meikyo; Weitsman, Sojun Mel

• ISBN13: 9781614290254
• ISBN10: 1614290253
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-05-21
• Publisher: Wisdom Publications

Summary

Walking the Way affirms that, like yin and yang, the yielding bohemian spontaneity of Tao and the precise simplicity of Zen find perfect balance with one another. Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum brings the two traditions together in a unique presentation that elicits Zen insights from his fresh interpretation of verses from the perennial Taoist classic, Tao Te Ching. Personal anecdotes from Rosenbaum’s life illustrate the dynamic potential of his approach, skillfully revealing Zen within the Tao and the Tao of Zen. By exploring the Zen import of this Taoist classic in the everyday—parenting, meditating, dealing with aging and illness—Walking the Way shows us how to live well in the midst of demands encountered in our complex modern times, finding harmony and equilibrium between honing in and letting go, between genuinely being ourselves and selflessly serving others.

Author Biography

Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum, Ph.D., has been a Zen practitioner for forty years and received lay entrustment from Sojun Mel Weitsman of Berkeley Zen Center. Bob is also authorized as a senior teacher of the Taoist practice of Dayan (Wild Goose) qigong in the lineage of Yang Meijun by Master Hui Liu and teaches at the Wen Wu School and the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. For thirty years he practiced Zen and qigong while raising a family, trekking the mountains of the High Sierras and the Great Himalaya Trail, and working as a neuropsychologist, psychotherapist, and specialist in behavioral medicine and chronic pain for Kaiser Permanente. Bob is the author of Zen and the Heart of Psychotherapy. He has also been a Fulbright Professor at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in India and director of the doctoral training program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Sojun Mel Weitsman is a Zen teacher in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, and a former abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center. He lives in San Francisco.