The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment
by Philip Kapleau Roshi
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Author: Philip Kapleau RoshiEdition: Paperback
Published: 1989-02-27
ISBN: 0385260938
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Anchor
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Book Review: The Hell of Zen Books
Summary: 5 Stars
The title for my review is something I read in the review sections. I am an American, don't speak or write Japanese or Chinese...like most practicing Americans. This means that we for the most part have to trust what the writers of a way purportedly beyond words and letters have to say on reams and reams of paper. PK had the advantage over us in that he had a facility for language and set his life up to pursue his Zen. I like this book. Frankly it is a morass out there. PK always goes back to the fundamental of sitting. If one is not sitting...the slow going is even slower! I recommend this book for anyone that is seeking to learn...because there is much to unlearn eh?
I recommend this book because I believe that when pushed people can make up their own perceptions of what a special book like this has to offer. My only criticism of it would be the anecdotal descriptions of people reaching kensho and the bells and whistles and weeping that goes with it...kensho has certain hallmarks but the reader must come to it in their own way...and these war stories do much to create preconceived notions of what one's practice can entail.
That being said...of all the books (and there are myriad) this one has a good feel to it and its simple focus on the fundamentals without jargon is forever needed. When one looks through the book notice the pictures of PK and his Roshi's. The eyes and the face say a great deal...and the images speak volumes of what practice meant to them.
Before you buy the latest thirty dollar rehash of what some whipper snapper has to say about Zen...Give this book a read.
Summary of The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment
Through explorations of the three pillars of Zen--teaching, practice, and enlightenment--Roshi Philip Kapleau presents a comprehensive overview of the history and discipline of Zen Buddhism.??An established classic, this 35th anniversary edition features new illustrations and photographs, as well as a new afterword by Sensei Bodhin Kjolhede, who has succeeded Philip Kapleau as spiritual director of the Rochester Zen Center, one of the oldest and most influential Zen centers in the United States.Religious Books
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