Taisen Deshimaru Reihenfolge der Bücher

"A story of bravery and false starts, The Autobiography of a Zen Monk candidly recounts the author’s development from a highly mischievous Japanese boy into a world-renowned Sensei (Teacher) of Zen. While countless memoirs exist written by Zen students and teachers, few are as engaging and as tantalizing as Taisen Deshimaru’s. Looking back at his early life, growing up in Japan, from the viewpoint of his status as a Zen teacher in Paris, the author reflects on his earliest misadventures―from defacing a valuable painting of Bodhidharma as a child, to turning the “Zen stick” on a young monk during a retreat. Adventures abound with stories about alcohol and women, during his student years, and his activities during World War II in working for the arms industry in Malaysia, where he was sympathetic to the underground freedom movement. This first English-language translation of Taisen Deshimaru’s autobiography will be prized for its clear and honest documentation of this great master’s life. Many people all over the world have been influenced by Deshimaru’s Zen teachings, especially his book on Zen and the martial arts. This memoir fills an important gap in our knowledge of his teacher, Kodo Sawaki’s influence on the world of Zen. The story of how Deshimaru met Sawaki as a boy, even slept in the same room with him, and later received monastic ordination is the story of a lifelong friendship of two extraordinary characters in the history of modern Zen. Deshimaru’s influence extends beyond Zen practitioners, though, especially in those interested in the martial arts, as he touches on his martial arts experience as a young man and offers a look into the master’s early training. Additional interest extends to historians who recount the supposed “scandals” of Zen masters’ participation in the war effort. Although Deshimaru’s viewpoint is decidedly subjective, he was intimately acquainted with priests and generals alike, and approaches the difficult subject with a refreshing lack of judgmental disdain which counterbalances many other more lopsided works

Revised edition of: The voice of the valley: Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, A1979.

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Dieses Buch enthält Niederschriften der authentischen Lehre eines großen Zen-Meisters unserer Zeit. Rôshi Taisen Deshimaru kam 1967 nach Europa, um hier die reine Zen-Lehre zu verbreiten. Bis zu seinem Tod lehrte er unablässig das Geheimnis des Zen: shikantaza, die Praxis des selbstlosen Sitzens in der Haltung der Erweckung (Zazen). Die Zen-Lehre wurzelt tief im Alltag, sie zielt auf eine tiefgreifende Umwandlung des Individuums zur wahren Selbstverwirklichung hin und ist darin von einzigartiger Wirksamkeit. Viele Abbildungen und Texte alter Meister runden dieses Werk zu einem Kompendium ab, das längst als die Einführung in Zen schlechthin gilt.

In "Zen-Meister live!" zeichnet Philippe Coupey die Lehren von Taisen Deshimaru auf, dem einflussreichsten Zen-Meister Europas. Die Aufzeichnungen aus den Sommersesshin 1978 bieten Einblicke in Rinzai- und Soto-Zen sowie ein alternatives Erziehungsmodell. Enthält ein Glossar und eine Einleitung von Coupey. Originaltitel: SIT.

Le Shin Jin Mei , "Poème sur la foi en l'esprit", est un recueil de soixante-treize versets, écrits à la fin du VIe siècle par maître Sosan, troisième patriarche chinois après Bodhidharma et Hui Ko, ou Eka en japonais, le maître de Dogen. C'est le plus ancien texte du Ch'an chinois, courant du bouddhisme qui donnera naissance au Japon, six siècles plus tard, à la tradition zen.Ces poèmes, brefs et incisifs comme des diamants, ont inspiré ultérieurement plus de mille koans, ces phrases énigmatiques employées par les maîtres ch'an et zen pour éveiller leurs disciples : c'est dire la richesse essentielle de ce texte majeur du patrimoine littéraire de l'humanité, traduit et commenté ici par le maître zen Taisen Deshimaru.