Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo

Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, Jokei Molly Delight Whitehead, Shohaku Okumura

• Publisher: Wisdom Publications
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781614290483
• eBook ISBN:
  9781614290476
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religious Biographies

Abandon your treasured delusions and hit the road with one of the most important Zen masters of twentieth-century Japan.

Eschewing the entrapments of vanity, power, and money, "Homeless" Kodo Sawaki Roshi refused to accept a permanent position as a temple abbot, despite repeated offers. Instead, he lived a traveling, "homeless" life, going from temple to temple, student to student, teaching and instructing and never allowing himself to stray from his chosen path. He is responsible for making Soto Zen available to the common people outside of monasteries.

His teachings are short, sharp, and powerful. Always clear, often funny, and sometimes uncomfortably close to home, they jolt us into awakening.

Kosho Uchiyama expands and explains his teacher's wisdom with his commentary. Trained in Western philosophy, he draws parallels between Zen teachings and the Bible, Descartes, and Pascal. Shohaku Okumura has also added his own commentary, grounding his teachers’ power and sagacity for the contemporary, Western practitioner.

Experience the timeless, practical wisdom of three generations of Zen masters.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Dedication
• Publisher’s Acknowledgment
• Contents
• Molly Delight Whitehead’s Preface
• Shohaku Okumura’s Introduction
• Kosho Uchiyama’s Introduction
• The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
• Kodo Sawaki Roshi’s Zazen
• Recollections of My Teacher, Kodo Sawaki Roshi
• The Life of Homeless Kodo
• Main Sources
• Index
• About the Authors
• About Wisdom Publications
• Also Available from Wisdom Publications
• Copyright