Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen

San Francisco, Zen Center, Brown, Edward Espe, Suzuki, Shunryu

ISBN 10: 0060957549 / ISBN 13: 9780060957544

Editore: HarperOne, 2009

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Riassunto:

Practising the true spirit of Zen.

Not Always So is based on Shunryu Suzuki's lectures and is framed in his own inimitable, allusive, paradoxical style, rich with unexpected and off–centre insights. Suzuki knew he was dying at the time of the lectures, which gives his thoughts an urgency and focus even sharper than in the earlier book.

In Not Always So Suzuki once again voices Zen in everyday language with the vigour, sensitivity, and buoyancy of a true friend. Here is support and nourishment. Here is a mother and father lending a hand, but letting you find your own way. Here is guidance which empowers your freedom (or way–seeking mind), rather than pinning you down to directions and techniques. Here is teaching which encourages you to touch and know your true heart and to express yourself fully, teaching which is not teaching from outside, but a voice arising in your own being.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Zen master Shunryu Suzuki (1904 - 1971) was a much beloved spiritual teacher. Born the son of a Zen master, Suzuki began his Zen training as a youngster in Japan. Suzuki came to San Francisco in 1959, and established the Zen Center in San Francisco with a training temple at Tassajara―the first such temple in the West. After a lengthy illness, he died of cancer in December, 1971.

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Titolo: Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of...
Casa editrice: HarperOne
Data di pubblicazione: 2009
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good