On Zen Practice

Body, Breath, and Mind

Taizan Maezumi, Bernie Glassman, Taizan Maezumi, Bernie Glassman

• Publisher: Wisdom Publications
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780861713158
• eBook ISBN: 9780861717354
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Literary Essays

This updated landmark volume makes available for the first time in decades the teachings that were formative to a whole generation of American Zen teachers and students. Conceived as an overarching primer on the practice of Zen, chapters in this volume address every aspect of practice: beginning practice, shikantaza, chanting, sesshin, working with Mu, and the nature of koans.In the intervening years since the publication of the earlier edition, countless books have appeared on Zen. Few, if any, have approached the strengths of On Zen Practice as a reference or teaching tool, and the book retains a lively, immediate quality that will appeal to today's readers.

Index

absolute vs. relative, 19, 56, 81, 85

aegu (gasping breath), 120

“All the evil karma ever committed by me since of old” (verse), 68

Amida Buddha (Western Heaven), 36

anuttara samyak sambodhi (enlightenment). See also kensho (breaking through); the Way

attaining, 23, 64–65, 74–76, 100, 101–7

Buddha and, 45, 53–54, 83, 90, 92

delusion and, 142–43, 144

described, 19–20, 74, 179

famous cases, 34, 92

four wisdoms, 92–94

hara and, 89

as a hindrance, 141–42, 148–49

hindrances to, 30–31, 33, 79–81

is necessary, 159–60

koans and, 94–95

leaving, 156

levels of, 23, 142, 152, 153

moment of, 144

moon metaphors, 28, 44–45, 144–45, 150–51, 156, 166

objects and, 34, 36

perspectives on, 91

practice and, 151–52, 156, 158, 159–60

precepts, receiving the, 67–71, 70, 163

zazen and, 3, 8–9, 25

asceticism in Buddhism, 23, 53–54, 59

atonement, 8–9, 68, 71

attachments, 67–68, 93, 154. See also clinging

backward step, 24–25

Baoche, 138, 159

Bansho, 123

Baso, Master, 122

blind men and elephant (parable), 38

blood lineage chart, 70–71

The Blue Cliff Record, 112, 127

bodhi (awakened), 9, 14, 15, 111

Bodhidharma, 109–17, 119, 120–22, 124, 125

bodhisattva (enlightenment being), 34, 64–65, 67–71, 165–67, 179

body and mind

concentration and, 31

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Foreword
• I. Introduction
• II. On Form
• III. On Shikantaza and Koans
• IV. On the Way of Everyday Life
• V. Appendices
• Glossary
• About the Authors
• Index