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A FLOWER DOES NOT TALK

 Zen essays

By

ABBOT ZENKEI SHIBAYAMA

Nanzenji Monastery

Kyoto, Japan

Translated by

SUMIKO KUDO

CHARLES E. TUTTLE COMPANY

Rutland, Vermont       Tokyo, Japan

Contents

Preface

Introduction

By Daisetz T. Suzuki

Characteristics of Zen

Training in Zen

Zen personality

Zazen wasan

Foreword

The Song of Zazen, by Hakuin

Background

            Zen master Hakuin

            On the title

            On the Structure of the song

Explanatory notes

            Introduction

            Main text of Zazen wasan

            Conclusion

            Paintings of Hakuin

The six oxherding pictures

Preface

Explanatory notes

            The Oxherding pictures of Zen

            The mind –ox

            The Whitening of the Black Ox

            The Herdsman

            The Tether of Faith

            The Rod of Striving

            A circle

            Bibligraphy of Jitoku

The pictures

1.      Awakening of Faith

2.      First Entering

3.      Not thoroughly Genuine yet

4.      True mind

5.      Both forgiven

6.      Playing

A FLOWER DOES NOT TALK

Preface

The whole world today, both east anh West, seems to be going through a period of convulsion, a time of travail, as it seeks to give birth to a new culture. There cannot be one simple cause for the tensions in so many parts of the world, but one of the major factors may be that while remarkable progress has been made in the use of new scientific knowledge, we human beings have not developed sufficiently spiritually and ethically to meet the new conditions.

It is most urgently required, therefore, that we must work to create a new human culture by striving for a truer understanding oa humanity an a higher level of personality so that we can cope with he brilliant scientific achievements of modern times.

Zen presents a unique spiritual culture in the East, highly refined in its long history anh traditions, and I believe it has universal and funfamental values that can contribute toward creating a new spiritual culture in our time

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