Description: Yesterday's Muse, Inc. presents ... Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai ISBN:0520219821 Author:Suzuki, Shunryu; Weitsman, Mel; Wenger, Michael Publisher:University of California Press Release Date:1999 Seller Category:-- Qty Available:1 Condition:Collectible: Excellent Sku: 2344752 Notes: First edition. Front jacket panel scratched. 1999 Hard Cover. viii, 191 pp. When Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind was published in 1972, it was enthusiastically embraced by Westerners eager for spiritual insight and knowledge of Zen. The book became the most successful treatise on Buddhism in English, selling more than one million copies to date. Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness is the first follow-up volume to Suzuki Roshi's important work. Like Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, it is a collection of lectures that reveal the insight, humor, and intimacy with Zen that made Suzuki Roshi so influential as a teacher. The Sandokai―a poem by the eighth-century Zen master Sekito Kisen (Ch. Shitou Xiqian)―is the subject of these lectures. Given in 1970 at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the lectures are an example of a Zen teacher in his prime elucidating a venerated, ancient, and difficult work to his Western students. The poem addresses the question of how the oneness of things and the multiplicity of things coexist (or, as Suzuki Roshi expresses it, "things-as-it-is"). Included with the lectures are his students' questions and his direct answers to them, along with a meditation instruction. Suzuki Roshi's teachings are valuable not only for those with a general interest in Buddhism but also for students of Zen practice wanting an example of how a modern master in the Japanese Soto Zen tradition understands this core text today. Don't forget to check out other great deals in our eBay Store!!
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Book Title: Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness : Zen Lectures on the Sandokai
Number of Pages: 199 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 1999
Topic: Buddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist), Poetry
Item Height: 0.9 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Religion
Item Weight: 2.1 Oz
Author: S. Roshi, Shunryu Suzuki
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
