The Morning Star

New and Selected Zen Writings

By: Robert Aitken

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Paperback | 1 October 2003

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Having practiced zazen for more than half a century, Robert Aitken sits today as the senior American Roshi, a writer and teacher of broad reputation and consequence, known for his clarity, compassion and insight, who numbers as his own teachers and associates some of the legendary figures of Japanese and American Buddhism. His serendipitous beginning as a Buddhist resulted from being a civilian prisoner of the Japanese in the Second World War, where he found R. R. Blythe, the great haiku master, and D. T. Suzuki, the most important and popular chronicler of Zen in English, as fellow detainees. After the war, Aitken returned to Japan on several occasions to study in traditional monastic settings. He has been a leader of the contemporary move to establish Zen Buddhism in the West and was a founding member of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. With material never before collected in book form, The Morning Star includes writings from his first book, A Zen Wave, and from eight collections of essays and poems he’s published over the last three decades. The introduction to this volume offers Robert Aitken’s latest presentation of Zen practice, addressing the Great Matter from a historical and personal perspective.

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Acknowledgments
References
Introduction: Taking the Path Anew	p. 1
The Basics
First Steps	p. 53
The Way	p. 61
Words in the Dojo	p. 71
Commentaries
The Old Pond	p. 87
The Mountain Path	p. 92
Quail	p. 96
The Shepherd's Purse	p. 100
The Ten Verse Kannon Sutra for Timeless Life	p. 106
Hui-Neng's "Think Neither Good nor Evil"	p. 123
Yang-shan's Sermon from the Third Seat	p. 131
The Five Modes of Tung-shan: The Verses	p. 138
Mode I	p. 140
Mode II	p. 145
Mode III	p. 149
Mode IV	p. 153
Mode V	p. 158
Hsuan-sha's Drainage Ditch	p. 162
Giving	p. 167
Reflections
Words from the Roshi	p. 177
The Morning Star	p. 200
A Garland of Haiku	p. 208
The Dance of Affinity	p. 217
Verses for Zen Buddhist Practice	p. 225
"Do You Remember?"	p. 230
About Money	p. 235
Envisioning the Future	p. 240
Eating the Blame	p. 255
Sayings and Doings of a Wise Bird	p. 260
Wallace Stevens and Zen	p. 268
Notes	p. 277
Further Acknowledgments	p. 287
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