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OPENING THE HAND OF THOUGHT:

APPROACH TO ZEN

KOSHO  UCHIYAMA

Translated by Shohaku Okumura and

Tom Wright

Edited by Jisho Cary Warner

Arkana

                        PUBLISHER’S NOTES

THE TEACHINGS OF A PRE-EMINENT ZEN MASTER

Wise, clear, and searching, Opening the Hand of Thought brings together the writings of an iconoclastic Japanese Zen master. Kòshò Uchiyama takes a more rational approach to transcendence, to the discovery of the unlimited depth of reality, and understands the self beyond our usual notions of who we are – the self that wholeheartedly lives out the truth of life. He attempts to answer the essential question. How do we bring Zen practice and our everday modern lives together into a fresh original expression of our life force? His book is a challenge to the  individual, an exploration of the relationship each of us has to ourself and to the world, and a spiritual journey infused with the wise humor of a respected and revered teacher.

                                    CONTENTS

TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE

EDOTOR’S PREFACE

FOREWORD

                                    PART ONE

UNDENIABLE REALITY

1. Foundations of a Rifined Life

The Theme of My Life

The Self That Lives the Whole Truth

1. Practice and Persimmons

How Does a Persimmon Become Sweet?

The Significance of Buddhist Practice

The Four Seals

Practice is for Life

                        PART TWO

THE REALITY OF ZAZEN

1. The Meaning of Zazen

Ants in Sugar Bowl

Depending on Others is Unstable

Everything is Just as It is

Living out the Reality of Life

1. The Reality of Zazen

How to Do Zazen

Letting go of Thoughts

Waking up to Life

1. The Reality of Sesshin

Sesshins Without Toys

Before Time and “I” effort

The Scenery of Life

1. The True Self of the Zazen Practitionner

The self is the Universe

The Activity of the Reality of Life

                        PART THREE

THE LIFE OF THE TRUE SELF

1. The Structure of Life

Aimless Modernity

Self Settling on Itself

Interdependence and the Middle Way

Delusion and Zazen

1. The Daily Life of Zazen Practitionner

Zazen as Religion

Vow and Repentance

Living wide Awake

The direction of the Universal

                        PART FOUR

PRACTICING BUDDHISM , PRACTICING LIFE

9        The Wayseeker

Seven Points of Practice

Opening the Hand of Thought

Zazen is Our True Teacher

Gain is Delusion, Loss is Enlightenment

Living by Vow

Development and Backsliding

Sit Silently

Cooperate to Practice

Leaving Antaiji

10    Questions

On Zazen

The Bodhisattva Vow

Living Practice

Going Home

APPENDIX 1. KINHIN

APPENDIX 2. HOW TO MAKE A ZAFU, OR SITTING CUSHION

GLOSSARY

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