Zen Comes West: The Present and Future of Zen Buddhism in Western SocietyZen Buddhism was founded in China in the 6th century, and its direct path to Enlightenment first came west in 1927 with D. T. Suzuki's first Essays. This work guides the reader towards Zen teaching in practice and theory, and to provide material for further explorations into its meditative experience. |
Contents
TO THE ZEN CLASS Direct Action | 14 |
INTRODUCTION | 15 |
ZEN BUDDHISM | 21 |
TO MARY Life cannot be too complicated | 23 |
ZEN COMES WEST | 28 |
THE PROBLEM BECOMES ACUTE | 34 |
Facing situations directly | 36 |
PREPARATION FOR THE JOURNEY | 49 |
TO SILVER The need and uses of discipline | 80 |
TO SILVER Zen is not about anything | 92 |
TO MR CRASHAW What has Zen that | 98 |
TO BILLY Advice on books to study | 104 |
TO SALLY Value of ritual in | 111 |
TO BILLY All troubles are fair | 118 |
TO MARY Vulnerability Coping with | 124 |
NOTES FROM A TALK TO THE | 130 |
merely subjective? Proof and the intuition | 61 |
TO MR GUNTHER Zen is not a system | 67 |
TO RAMPTON The relation of God | 73 |
CONCENTRATION AND MEDITATION | 143 |
THE APPROACH TO ZEN | 158 |
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