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Title: Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy by Katsuki Sekida ISBN: 0-8348-0114-0 Publisher: Weatherhill Inc. Pub. Date: 01 December, 1975 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A curiosity value for Zen Training and practice
Comment: This is a quite innovative book written for Zen practitioners who do not have direct or regular access to a Zen teacher or for college graduates who are used to look for a sound psychological, philosophical and byological background to Zazen issues. The author was a high school teacher of English in Japan enrolled in Zen practice for 72 years. After retirement he spent ten years supervising training and performance of Zen students in Honolulu and London. This book evidences his professional mastering in the art of teaching. This book has a very clear structure and facilitates the understanding of many details that currently are absent in conventional books because they are exchanged in face-to-face meetings between teacher and disciple. He remained a layman and considered unnecessary to become a monk. The physiology of attention and breathing is studied in technical and well founded terms. The working on koans is approached keeping in mind that many Western Zen practitioners rarely pursue their training in a monastery. Cognitive aspects involved in the process of samadhi, awareness, awakening, knowing and being without thinking are broken down, analyzed and illustrated thoroughly and accurately. The final manuscript was reviewed by a collaborator, a lecturer at the University of Cambridge. There is a companion book of the same author, Two Zen Classics, that introduces and comments the two main collections of koans. There is also an good Spanish version, published by Editorial Kairos in Barcelona, and the title Zazen.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best book about zen I've read so far
Comment: For me, this book is the best book on zen I've read,because it deals with a topic that is essencial for learning zen, and that is not discussed in detail in most of the other books: how to practice zazen. It explains methods for breathing, diferent postures, what you should experience in zazen, and many other interesting things. I start practicing zazen a while ago under the direction of a zen monk, and I even went to a ten days sesshin (retreat), but I learned to breath in zazen through this book. I greatly recomend this book for anyone who is interested in zen, beginers and who has some knowledge alike.
Rating: 5
Summary: Deep and practical
Comment: A very thoroughful and practical manual for Zen meditation. Excellent!
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Title: Two Zen Classics: Mumonkan and Hekiganroku by Hui-Kai Wu-Men Kuan, A.V. Grimstone, Katsuki Sekida, Yuan-Wu Pi Yen Lu ISBN: 0834801302 Publisher: Weatherhill Inc. Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness by James H. Austin ISBN: 0262511096 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 02 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki ISBN: 0834800799 Publisher: Weatherhill Inc. Pub. Date: 01 April, 1972 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment by Phillip Kapleau Roshi ISBN: 0385260938 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 February, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: An Introduction to Zen Training: A Translation of Sanzen Nyumon by Omori Sogen, Trevor Leggett, Dogen Hosokawa, Roy Kenichi Yoshimoto ISBN: 0804832471 Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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