Zen in the Vernacular
Inner Traditions Bear and Company (Verlag)
978-1-64411-975-4 (ISBN)
During the nearly 3,000 years since the Buddha lived, his teachings have spread widely around the globe. In each culture where Buddhism was introduced, the Buddha’s teachings have been pruned and modified to harmonize with local customs, laws, and cultures. We can refer to these modifications as “gift wrapping,” translating the gifts of Buddha’s teachings in ways sensible to particular cultures in particular times. This gift-wrapping explains why Indian, Tibetan, Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese, and Indonesian Buddhism have significant differences.
In this engaging guide to Zen Buddhism, award-winning actor, narrator, and Zen Buddhist priest Peter Coyote helps us peer beneath the Japanese gift-wrapping of Zen teachings to reveal the fundamental teachings of the Buddha and show how they can be applied to contemporary daily life. The author explains that the majority of Western Buddhists are secular and many don’t meditate, wear robes, shave their heads, or believe in reincarnation. He reminds us that the mental/physical states achieved by Buddhist practice are universal human states, ones we may already be familiar with but perhaps never considered as possessing spiritual dimensions.
Exploring Buddha’s core teachings, the author shares his own secular and accessible interpretations of the Four Noble Truths, the Three Treasures, and the Eightfold Path within the context of his lineage and the teachings of his teacher and the teachers before him. He looks at Buddha’s teachings on our singular reality that appears as a multiplicity of things and on the “self” that perceives reality, translating powerful spiritual experience into the vernacular of modern life.
Revealing the practical usefulness of Buddhist philosophy and practice, Zen in the Vernacular shows how Zen offers a creative problem-solving mechanism and moral guide ideal for the stresses and problems of everyday life.
Peter Coyote is an award-winning actor, narrator, and teacher. Recognized for his narration work, he narrated the PBS series The Pacific Century, winning an Emmy Award, as well as eleven Ken Burns documentaries, including The Roosevelts, for which he won a second Emmy. A Zen student since 1974, in 2011 he was ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest and in 2015 received “transmission” from his teacher, making him an independent Zen teacher. The author of Sleeping Where I Fall, The Rainman’s Third Cure, and Tongue of a Crow as well as The Lone Ranger and Tonto Meet Buddha, he lives in northern California.
Foreword by Lewis Richmond
PART I
What the Buddha Taught
Introduction: Orientation
1 The Four Noble Truths: Dukkha
2 The Four Noble Truths: Samudaya
3 The Four Noble Truths: Nirodha
4 The Four Noble Truths: Marga, the Eightfold Path
5 Marga Part II
6 An Introduction to the Precepts
7 The Precepts
Part II
Things as It Is Introduction: Infusing the Ordinary
8 What Is This Thing We Call the Self?
9 Form and Ceremony
10 Emptiness and the Heart Sutra
11 Enlightenment: Seeing the Unseen
12 Believing in Nothing
13 The Three Treasures: Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha
14 The Role of Faith in Buddhist Practice
15 On Time: Host and Guest
16 Fuketsu’s Speck of Dust
PART III
Engaged with Vernacular Zen Introduction: Flashing in the Dark
17 On Anxiety
18 On Busyness
19 Wild Body, Wild Mind
20 Misunderstanding Emptiness
21 Values Not Embodied in Behavior Do Not Exist
22 Karma
23 On Loss: Issa’s “And Yet . . .”
24 Contradictions
25 Buddhist Anarchism
Acknowledgments
Annotated
Bibliography of Further Reading
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.03.2024 |
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| Vorwort | Lewis Richmond |
| Verlagsort | Rochester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 431 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Entspannung / Meditation / Yoga |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-64411-975-7 / 1644119757 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-64411-975-4 / 9781644119754 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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