Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai
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Abstract
When 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 the most successful treatise on Buddhism in English, selling more than one million copies to date. This book is the first follow-up volume to the author's important work. Like Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, it is a collection of lectures that reveal the insight, humor, and intimacy with Zen that made the author such an influential teacher. The Sandokai — a poem by the eighth-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 expressed in this book, “things-as-it-is”). Included with the lectures are the students' questions and the author's direct answers to them, along with a meditation instruction. The book provides an example of how a modern master in the Japanese Soto Zen tradition understands this core text of Buddhism today.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
Shunryu Suzuki
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Sekito Kisen and the Sandokai
Shunryu Suzuki
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Notes to the Reader
Shunryu Suzuki
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The Sandokai
Shunryu Suzuki
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First Talk: Things-As-It-Is
Shunryu Suzuki
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Second Talk: Warm Hand to Warm Hand
Shunryu Suzuki
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Third Talk: Buddha Is Always Here
Shunryu Suzuki
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Fourth Talk: The Blue Jay Will Come Right into Your Heart
Shunryu Suzuki
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Fifth Talk: Today We May Be Very Happy, and the Next Day We Don’t Know What Will Happen to Us
Shunryu Suzuki
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Sixth Talk: The Boat Is Always Moving
Shunryu Suzuki
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Seventh Talk: Without Any Idea of Attainment, Just to Sit Is Our Way
Shunryu Suzuki
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Eighth Talk: Within Light There is Utter Darkness
Shunryu Suzuki
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Ninth Talk: The Willow Tree Cannot Be Broken by the Snow
Shunryu Suzuki
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Tenth Talk: Suffering Is a Valuable Thing
Shunryu Suzuki
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A Short Talk During Aazen
Shunryu Suzuki
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Eleventh Talk: We Should Not Stick to Words or Rules Too Much
Shunryu Suzuki
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Twelfth Talk: Do Not Pass Your Days and Nights in Vain
Shunryu Suzuki
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Talk Given to a Visiting Class: We Are Just a Tiny Speck of Big Being
Shunryu Suzuki
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Oneness of One and Many
Shunryu Suzuki
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Lineage Chart of Teachers Mentioned in the Text
Shunryu Suzuki
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