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Title: Going Beyond Buddha: The Awakening Practice of Listening (Tuttle Library of Enlightenment) by Dae Gak ISBN: 0-8048-3116-5 Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.31 (16 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Cool book!
Comment: Having listened to Zen Master Dae Gak in person, his book sounds like his voice. :) Very clear, easy to enter into and take hold of, but very profound too.

Rating: 5
Summary: Great, valuable, important book.
Comment: This has been a very valuable book for me! The real life stories of Zen Master Dae Gak bring this often esoteric teaching to life. The greatest gift of this book is that it shines a light on one's own experiences as life's best teacher. As a pianist listening is central to my life. This book brightened what I found I had always known intuitively and used in my profession. Zen Master Dae Gak's teaching has encouraged me toward a deeper exploration of listening as a path to Truth.

Rating: 5
Summary: Listening has no roots
Comment: Zen master Dae Gak (Robert Genthner), received transmission of the dharma from 78th Zen Patriarch Seung Sahn back in 1994. He had previously studied in 2 Japanese lineages before training under Zen master Seung Sahn (Korean). For those of you who do retreats, he is the founder of Furnace Mountain in Kentucky, and he also does meditation seminars/retreats at the Abbey of Gethsemani where Cistercian monk Thomas Merton lived. He is a clincial psychologist, and has practiced Zen for over 30 years.

This book has a special quality to it. It focuses on what is oftentimes a very neglected form of practice. The art of listening. In order to really listen to this world, Dae Gak points out how we must let go of self interest in the act. All one needs to listen clearly is to really step outside of his/her normal "my perception" method of listening. Practice truly becoming present, becoming aware. Try to really perceive what the other person is conveying to you, instead of only seeing it from a one sided perspective. In a sense, you should practice listening with a no sided perspective. It's kind of like Taizan Maezumi Roshi's teachings on finding the tree with no roots. Or the land of no yin and yang. In a nutshell, place aside you and I when listening to someone. Sure they might be complaining, or even irritating. But if you don't assess the situation clearly, you cannot really be of service. And that is, after all, what Mahayana Buddhism is all about. Service to others, including ourselves. That Great Bodhisattva Vow, "I vow to save all beings suffering." It's a tall task, but it can only be achieved by two avenues, essentially. First you must make the effort, which happens to be one of the paramitas. And you must be able to perceive clearly. This means finding the tree with no roots. If you buy this book, I have not even the slightest doubt that you will come a bit closer toward attaining such a tree. Well wishes. And Zen master Dae Gak, thank you for such a wonderful book.