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The three pillars of zen

Teaching , practice, and enlightenment

Compiled & edited, with translation, introductions & notes

By PHILIP KAPLEAU

A weathermark edition

HARPER & ROW/ NEW YORK & EVANSTON

EDITOR’S PREFACE

Briefly stated, Zen is a religion with a unique method of body-mind training whose aim is satori, that is, Self-realization. Throughout this volume I have tried to convey the essentially religious character and spitit of Zen – yes, its ritual and symbols, its appeal to the heart no less than to the mind – for as a Buddhist way of liberation Zen is most assuredly a religion. Grounded in the highest teachings of the Buddha, it was brought from India to China, where the methods and techniques which are characteristically Zen’s were envolved, and then through the centuries further  elaborated in Japan. Zen Buddhism is thus the consummation of the spiritual experiences of three great Asian civilizations. In Japan today this tradition is still very much alive; in Zen temples, monasteries, and private homes men and women from every walk of life can be found actively engaged in zazen , the principle discipline of Zen.

At its profoundest level Zen, like every other great religion, transcends its own teachings and practices. The attempt in the West to isolate Zen in a vacuum of the intellec, cut off from the very disciplines which are its raison d’être, has nourished a pseudo-Zen which is little more than a mind-tickling diversion of highbrows and a plaything of beatniks.

CONTENTS

Foreword, by Huston Smith

Editor’s preface

PART ONE / TEACHING AND PRATICE

I /         YASUTANT-ROSHI’S INTRODUCTORY LECTURES

            ON ZEN TRAINING

Editor’s introduction

A bibligraphical note on Yasutani-roshi

The lectures

            1 / Theory and practice of Zazen

            2 / Precautions to observe in Zazen

            3 / Illusory visions and sensation

            4 / The five varieties of Zen

            5 / The three aims og Zazen

            6 / Individual unstruction

            7 / Shikan-taza

            8 / The parable of Enyadatta

            9 / Cause and effect are one

            10/ The three essentials of Zen practice

            11/ Aspiration

II /        YASUTANI-ROSHI’S COMMENTARY ON THE KOAN MU

Editor’s introduction

The commentary

III /      YASUTANI-ROSHI’S PRIVATE INTERVIEW WITH TEN WESTERNERS

Editor’s introduction

The interviews

            1 / Student A (woman, age 60)

            2 / Student B (man, age 45)

            3 / Student C (man, age 43)

            4 / Student D (woman, age 40)

            5 / Student E (man, age 44)

            6 / Student F (woman, age 45)

            7 / Student G (man, age 25)

            8 / Student H (woman, age 37)

            9 / Student I (man, age 30)

            10 / Student J (woman, age 33)

IV/       BASSUI’S SERMON ON ONE-MIND AND LETTERS TO HIS DISCIPLES

Editor’s introduction

The sermon

The letters

            1 / To a man from Kumasaki

            2 / to the abbess of Shinryu-ji

            3 / to Lord Nakamura, governor of Aki province

            4 / to a Dying man

            5 / to the Layman Ippo (Homma Shoken)

            6 / to a monk in Shobo hermitage

            7 / to the Nun Furusawa

            8 / First letter to the Zen priest Iguchi

            9 / Second letter to the Zen priest Iguchi

            10 / Thire letter to the Zen priest Iguchi

            11 / Fourth letter to the Zen priest Iguchi

            12 / to a Nun

            PART TWO / ENLIGHTENMENT

V /       EIGHT CONTEMPORARY ENLIGHTENMENT EXPERIENCES OF JAPANESE AND WESTERNERS

Editor’s introduction

The experiences

            1 / Mr. K. Y., a Japanese executive

            2 / Mr. P. K., an American Ex-businessman

            3 / Mr. K. T., a Japanese garden-designer

            4 / Mr. C.S., a Japanese retired government worker

            5 / Mrs. A. M., an American Schoolteacher

            6 / Mr. A,K., a Japanese insurance adjuster

            7 / Mrs. L. T., an American artist

            8 / Mrs. D.K., a Canadian housewife

VI /      YAEKO IWASAKI’S ENLIGHTENMENT LETTERS TO HARADA-ROSHI AND HIS COMMENTS

Editor’s introduction

The letters and comments

            1 / Evidence of Kensho

            2 / Evidence of great enlightenment

            3 / Evidence of Deepened enlightenment

            4 / Evidence of direct experience of the great way of Buddhism

            5 / Evidence of attaining the non-regressing mind of Fugen

            6 / Evidence of the joy and peace of being at one with the Dharma

            7 / Further evidence of the joy and peace of being at one with the Dharma

            8 / Presentiment of Death

            PART THREE / SUPPLEMENTS

VII /     DOGEN ON “BEING –TIME”

VIII /   THE TEN OXHERDING PICTURES WITH COMMENTARY AND VERSES

IX /      ZAZEN POSTURES ILLUSTRATED

X /       NOTES ON ZEN VOCABULARY AND BUDDHIST DOCTRINE

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