Zen Action/Zen Person"For the thoughtful Westerner this must be one of the most clear and perceptive accounts of Zen available. Thoroughly new is Kasulis' attempt to locate the Zen understanding of the person in secular Japanese assumptions." --Times Literary Supplement |
Contents
CHAPTER 1 | 3 |
CHAPTER 2 | 16 |
CHAPTER 3 | 29 |
CHAPTER 4 | 39 |
THE CONTEXT OF NOTHINGNESS | 44 |
CHAPTER 5 | 55 |
CHAPTER 6 | 65 |
CHAPTER 7 | 87 |
CHAPTER 8 | 104 |
CHAPTER 9 | 127 |
CHAPTER 10 | 142 |
Notes | 155 |
Works Cited | 165 |
Glossary | 169 |
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Abhidharma absolute achieve activity analysis arises authentication aware Bashō become being-time bell body-mind Buddha Buddha-nature Chapter characterization Chinese conceptual consciousness consider context culture D. T. Suzuki directly experienced disciple discussion distinction doctrine Dōgen emptiness enlightenment essence evil example function genjōkōan Hakuin Heidegger Heidegger's Ibid immediacy impermanence insofar Japan Jōshū's koan language Lao Tzu meaning meditation mind mode monk Morita therapy Nāgārjuna nature negation ningen Nishida NISHIDA Kitaro no-mind no-thought Nonbeing nothingness object objectified one's oneself original face personhood perspective phenomenology philosophical phrase practice prajñā prereflective experience presence of things present pure experience reality realization reflective relationship religious response rience Rinzai sanzen sense Shibayama shoakumakusa Shōbōgenzō simply situation Sōtō spontaneous standpoint student Tao Te Ching Taoist thinking and not-thinking thought tion tradition translation understanding Western without-thinking words zazen Zen Buddhism Zen humanism Zen Master Zen person Zen training Zen view Zen's Zenshū