
Eloquent Silence
Nyogen Senzaki's Gateless Gate and Other Previously Unpublished Teachings and Letters
By: Nyogen Senzaki
Paperback | 1 November 2008
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It makes available for the first time his complete commentaries on theGateless Gate, one of the most important and beloved of all Zen texts, as well as on koans from the Blue Rock Annals and the Book of Equanimity. Amazingly, some of these commentaries were written while Senzaki was detained at an internment camp during WWII.
Also included are rare photographs, poems reproduced in Senzaki's beautiful calligraphy and accompanied by his own translations, and transcriptions of his talks on Zen, esoteric Buddhism, theLotus Sutra, what it means to be a Buddhist monk, and other subjects. Roko Sherry Chayat has edited Nyogen Senzaki's words with sensitivity and grace, retaining his wry, probing style yet bringing clarity and accessibility to these remarkably contemporary teachings.
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Foreword | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Acknowledgments | p. 23 |
Photographs | p. 27 |
Commentaries on the Cateless Cate | p. 35 |
Introductory Comments | p. 37 |
Mumon's Introduction | p. 40 |
Joshu's Dog | p. 43 |
Hyakujo's Fox | p. 47 |
Gutei's Finger | p. 51 |
A Beardless Foreigner | p. 54 |
Kyogen's Man in a Tree | p. 57 |
Buddha Twirls a Flower | p. 60 |
Joshu's "Wash Your Bowl" | p. 63 |
Keichus Wheel | p. 67 |
A Buddha before History | p. 70 |
Seizei Alone and Poor | p. 74 |
Joshu Examines a Hermit Monk in Meditation | p. 77 |
Zuigan Calls His Own Master | p. 80 |
Tokusan Holds His Bowls | p. 83 |
Nansen Cuts the Cat in Two | p. 87 |
Tozan's Three Blows | p. 91 |
The Bell and the Ceremonial Robe | p. 94 |
The Three Calls of the Emperor's Teacher | p. 97 |
Tozan's Three Pounds | p. 100 |
Everyday Life Is the Path | p. 104 |
The Man of Great Strength | p. 107 |
Dried Dung | p. 110 |
Kashyapa's Preaching Sign | p. 113 |
Think Neither Good, Nor Not-Good | p. 116 |
Without Speech, Without Silence | p. 121 |
Preaching from the Third Seat | p. 124 |
Two Monks Roll Up the Screen | p. 127 |
It Is Not Mind, It Is Not Buddha, It Is Not Things | p. 130 |
Ryutan Blows Out the Candle | p. 133 |
Not the Wind, Not the Flag | p. 137 |
Mind Is Buddha | p. 141 |
Joshu Investigates | p. 144 |
A Philosopher Asks Buddha | p. 147 |
This Mind Is Not Buddha | p. 151 |
Wisdom Is Not the Path | p. 154 |
Two Souls | p. 158 |
Meeting a Master on the Road | p. 163 |
The Cypress Tree in the Garden | p. 166 |
A Buffalo Passes through an Enclosure | p. 169 |
Ummon's Off the Track | p. 172 |
Tipping Over a Water Vessel | p. 175 |
Bodhidharma Pacifies the Mind | p. 178 |
The Woman Comes Out from Meditation | p. 181 |
Shuzan's Short Staff | p. 185 |
Basho's Staff | p. 188 |
Who Is It? | p. 191 |
Proceed from the Top of the Pole | p. 194 |
The Three Barriers of Tosotsu | p. 197 |
One Path of Kernpo | p. 200 |
Amban's Addition | p. 203 |
Commentaries on the Blue Rock Collection | p. 207 |
I Know Not | p. 209 |
The Ultimate Path | p. 211 |
Suigan's Eyebrows | p. 213 |
Tozan's Three Pounds of Flax | p. 216 |
Seppo's Cobra | p. 218 |
Commentaries on the Book of Equanimity | p. 221 |
Introduction | p. 223 |
Buddha Takes His Preaching Seat | p. 226 |
Bodhidharma Walks Out from Samskrita | p. 229 |
Dharma Talks and Essays | p. 235 |
An Ideal Buddhist | p. 237 |
A Meeting With Sufi Master Hazrat Inayat Khan | p. 242 |
Seven Treasures, Part One | p. 244 |
Seven Treasures, Part Two | p. 249 |
Seven Treasures, Part Three | p. 253 |
The Ten Stages of Consciousness | p. 257 |
Emancipation | p. 260 |
How to Study Buddhism | p. 265 |
Zen Buddhism in the Light of Modern Thought | p. 268 |
Buddhism and Women | p. 272 |
Obaku's Transmission of Mind, Part One | p. 276 |
Obaku's Transmission of Mind, Part Two | p. 279 |
Obaku's Transmission of Mind, Part Three | p. 282 |
Obaku's Transmission of Mind, Part Four | p. 286 |
Esoteric Buddhism in Japan | p. 289 |
Shingon Teachings | p. 296 |
What Is Zen? An Evening Chat | p. 299 |
What Does a Buddhist Monk Want? | p. 305 |
On Zen Meditation | p. 309 |
On The Lotus of the Wonderful Law: Introducing Soen Nakagawa | p. 315 |
Bankei's Zen | p. 322 |
Calligraphies and Selected Poems | p. 325 |
"Basho" | p. 327 |
"0pening words of Wyoming Zendo" | p. 328 |
"Evacuees make poinsettia" | p. 329 |
"Autumn came naturally" | p. 330 |
"In this part of plateau" | p. 331 |
"This desert on the plateau" | p. 332 |
"My uta (Japanese ode)" | p. 333 |
"Those who live without unreasonable desires" | p. 334 |
"The mother was named an enemy-alien" | p. 335 |
"Naked mountains afar!" | p. 336 |
"No spring in this plateau" | p. 337 |
"Closing the meditation hall" | p. 338 |
"Bodhidharrna" | p. 339 |
"This world is the palace of enlightenment" | p. 340 |
"Until now the radiant moon" | p. 341 |
odhidharma Commemoration | p. 343 |
Celebration of Buddha's Birth | p. 343 |
Translations of Three Poems by Jakushitsu | p. 344 |
Commemoration of Soyen Shaku | p. 346 |
Thirty-third Commemoration of Soyen Shaku | p. 346 |
The Autobiography of Soyen Shaku: Translated and with Comments | p. 347 |
Correspondence | p. 363 |
To Soyen Shaku, December 25, 189? | p. 365 |
To Soyen Shaku, March 21, 1905 | p. 378 |
The Purpose of Establishing Tozen Zenkutsu, April 8, 1931 | p. 382 |
Article and Related Letters to the Editor, Second General Conference of Pan-Pacific Young Buddhist Associations, 1934 | p. 384 |
Exchange with Myra A. Stall, July 11 and 16, 1956 | p. 402 |
Newly Translated Correspondence | p. 404 |
Notes | p. 407 |
Bibliography | p. 411 |
Index | p. 413 |
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ISBN: 9780861715596
ISBN-10: 0861715594
Published: 1st November 2008
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 433
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Wisdom Publications,U.S.
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8
Weight (kg): 0.61
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