Keep Me in Your Heart a While: The Haunting Zen of Dainin Katagiri

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ReadHowYouWant.com, 2010 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 176 pages
One of the great pioneers of Zen in America, Dainin Katagiri had a teaching style that was at once powerful, gentle, and sometimes even casual. For his student, Dosho Mike Port, some of Katagiri's most profound teachings came in the simple moments of everyday interactions. Keep Me in Your Heart a While is built around a series of these vivid, truth-revealing incidents that evoke the feel of ancient Zen koans. Each chapter starts with an encounter with Katagiri and unfolds from there, touching on subjects such as the nature and the purpose of Zen, the dynamic and working of realization, and the evolving relationship between teacher and student. In sharing what it was like to train with one of the first generation of American Zen teachers, Dosho Mike Port preserves and revitalizes this incredible path, making it available to the next generation of seekers.
 

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Not Getting
1
We Dont Study
19
Stuck
34
Gazing at
72
Not Using
86
On Being
93
Dainins Four Essential
101
Throwing Open the Heart How Do You
110
Maybe Next
118
Hair
130
Author
137

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