Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom
Three Fascicles from Shobogenzo with Commentary
Wisdom Publications (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 30. January 2018
344 pages
978-1-61429-339-2 (ISBN)
Description
Insightful commentary on a beloved ancient philosopher of Zen by a beloved contemporary master of Zen.
Famously insightful and famously complex, Eihei Dogen's writings have been studied and puzzled over for hundreds of years. In Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom, Kosho Uchiyama, beloved twentieth-century Zen teacher addresses himself head-on to unpacking Dogen's wisdom from three fascicles (or chapters) of his monumental Shobogenzo for a modern audience.
The fascicles presented here from Shobogenzo, or Treasury of the True Dharma Eye include "Shoaku Makusa" or "Refraining from Evil," "Maka Hannya Haramitsu" or "Practicing Deepest Wisdom," and "Uji" or "Living Time." Tom Wright and Shohaku Okumura lovingly translate Dogen's penetrating words and Uchiyama's thoughtful commentary on each piece. At turns poetic and funny, always insightful, this is Zen wisdom for the ages.
Famously insightful and famously complex, Eihei Dogen's writings have been studied and puzzled over for hundreds of years. In Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom, Kosho Uchiyama, beloved twentieth-century Zen teacher addresses himself head-on to unpacking Dogen's wisdom from three fascicles (or chapters) of his monumental Shobogenzo for a modern audience.
The fascicles presented here from Shobogenzo, or Treasury of the True Dharma Eye include "Shoaku Makusa" or "Refraining from Evil," "Maka Hannya Haramitsu" or "Practicing Deepest Wisdom," and "Uji" or "Living Time." Tom Wright and Shohaku Okumura lovingly translate Dogen's penetrating words and Uchiyama's thoughtful commentary on each piece. At turns poetic and funny, always insightful, this is Zen wisdom for the ages.
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Shohaku Okumura is a Soto Zen priest and Dharma successor of Kosho Uchiyama Roshi. He is a graduate of Komazawa University and has practiced in Japan at Antaiji, Zuioji, and the Kyoto Soto Zen Center, and in Massachusetts at the Pioneer Valley Zendo. He is the former director of the Soto Zen Buddhism International Center in San Francisco. His previously published books of translation include Shobogenzo Zuimonki, Dogen Zen, Zen Teachings of Homeless Kodo, and Opening the Hand of Thought. Okumura is also editor of Dogen Zen and Its Relevance for Our Time and SotoZen. He is the founding teacher of the Sanshin Zen Community, based in Bloomington, Indiana, where he lives with his family.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction by Tom Wright
- Part I. Practicing Deepest Wisdom
- 1. Maka Hannya Haramitsu
- 2. Commentary on "Maka Hannya Haramitsu"
- Part II. Refraining from Evil
- 3. Shoaku Makusa
- 4. Commentary on "Shoaku Makusa"
- Part III. Living Time
- 5. Uji
- 6. Commentary on "Uji"
- Part IV. Comments by the Translators
- 7. Connecting "Maka Hannya Haramitsu" to the Pali Canon by Shohaku Okumura
- 8. Looking into Good and Evil in "Shoaku Makusa" by Daitsu Tom Wright
- 9. The Ramifications of Time in Dogen's Zen by Daitsu Tom Wright
- Translators' Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Contributors
- Copyright
