The matter of zen : a brief account of zazen / Paul Wienpahl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wienpahl, Paul., author.

Series:

Routledge Library Editions Zen Buddhism

Routledge Library Editions: Zen Buddhism ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meditation--Buddhism.

Meditation.

Zen Buddhism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 p.)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

This book, first published in 1964, concerns the practice of Zen Buddhism. The practice is a particular form of meditation. In Japan, the only country in which it is any longer seriously pursued, the practice is called zazen. The author directs attention to zazen because it is being overlooked in the current interest in Zen.

Contents:

Half Title; Title Page ; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents ; Preface ; 1 The First Step; 2 Zazen ; 3 Aids to zazen ; 4 Further Directions ; 5 Simplicity I; 6 Simplicity II; 7 Sanzen and the Koan; 8 Satori; 9 Other Aids for Zazen; 10 Zazen Overlooked; 11 Zazen, Not Quietism; 12 The Vigor in Zazen; 13 From Sayings of Rinzai; 14 The Hard Work: Sesshin; 15 Ladder Zen and the Paradoxes; 16 Some History; 17 The Theory; 18 Zen and Psychoanalysis; 19 Zen and Philosophy; 20 Ryoan-ji: The Practice Again ; 21 Listening; 22 Lectures I

23 Lectures IIEpilogue; Notes

Notes:

First published in Great Britain in 1965 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd. First published in the USA in 1964 by New York University Press.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-61991-1

1-317-21537-0

1-317-21536-2

9781315619910

OCLC:

949326363