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Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness
Zen Talks on the Sandokai
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This book suits readers interested in Zen Buddhism, spiritual philosophy, and those seeking a deeper understanding of Eastern meditation teachings. It appeals to both dedicated practitioners and thoughtful newcomers wanting sophisticated, accessible insight into Zen thought.
Like Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, it is a collection of lectures that reveal the insight, humor, and intimacy with Zen that made Suzuki Roshi so influential as a teacher.
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When Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind was published in 1972, it was enthusiastically embraced by Westerners eager for spiritual insight and knowledge of Zen. The book became one of the most successful treatises on Buddhism in English, selling more than one million copies to date.
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness is the first follow-up volume to Suzuki Roshi's important work. Like Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, it is a collection of lectures that reveal the insight, humour and intimacy with Zen that made Suzuki Roshi so influential as a teacher.
The "Sandokai"—a poem by the 8th-century Zen master Sekito Kisen (Ch. Shitou Xiqian)—is the subject of these lectures. Given in 1970 at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the lectures are an example of a Zen teacher in his prime elucidating a venerated, ancient and difficult work to his Western students. The poem addresses the question of how the oneness of things and the multiplicity of things coexist (or, as Suzuki Roshi expresses it, "things-as-it-is").
Included with the lectures are his students' questions and his direct answers to them, along with a meditation instruction. Suzuki Roshi's teachings are valuable not only for their spiritual insights but also for their relevance to modern life.
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Critics praise Suzuki Roshi's voice as both gentle and sophisticated, far from a simplified self-help style, offering profound philosophical instruction. Kobal Scott Whitney of Parabola highlights the continuation of the authentic teaching style first seen in Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Donna Seaman of Booklist notes the text’s depth and Suzuki's considerable teaching gifts, reflected in its eloquent and humorous approach to the complex topic of the Sandokai.
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ISBN: 9780520232129
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 13 November 2001
Country: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Illustration: 1 b-w photograph, 1 line illustration
Contributors:
- Edited by Mel Weitsman
- Edited by Michael Wenger
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 272g
Pages: 199
About the Author
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi came to the United States in 1959, leaving his temple in Yaizu, Japan, to serve as priest for the Japanese American congregation at Sokoji Temple in San Francisco. In 1967 he and his students created the first Zen Buddhist monastery in America at Tassajara in the coastal mountains south of San Francisco. Suzuki Roshi died in 1971 at age 67, a year and a half after delivering his teaching on the Sandokai. He may have had a premonition of his coming death when he said that it was common for Zen teachers in the Soto tradition to lecture on the Sandokai near the end of life. Mel Weitsman is the former abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center and current abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center. Michael Wenger is Dean of Buddhist Studies at the San Francisco Zen Center.
Also by Shunryu Suzuki
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