ABSTRACT

This book, first published in 1964, concerns the practice of Zen Buddhism. The practice is a particular form of meditation. In Japan, the only country in which it is any longer seriously pursued, the practice is called zazen. The author directs attention to zazen because it is being overlooked in the current interest in Zen.

chapter 1|5 pages

The first step

chapter 2|6 pages

Zazen

chapter 3|7 pages

Aids to zazen

chapter 4|3 pages

Further directions

chapter 5|2 pages

Simplicity I

chapter 6|3 pages

Simplicity II

chapter 7|8 pages

Sanzen and the koan

chapter 8|4 pages

Satori

chapter 9|7 pages

Other aids for zazen

chapter 10|8 pages

Zazen overlooked

chapter 11|7 pages

Zazen, not quietism

chapter 12|7 pages

The vigor in zazen

chapter 13|5 pages

From sayings of Rinzai

chapter 14|6 pages

The hard work: sesshin

chapter 15|8 pages

Ladder Zen and the paradoxes

chapter 16|8 pages

Some history

chapter 17|4 pages

The theory

chapter 18|4 pages

Zen and psychoanalysis

chapter 19|6 pages

Zen and philosophy

chapter 20|4 pages

Ryoan-ji: the practice again

chapter 21|4 pages

Listening

chapter 22|6 pages

Lectures I 1

chapter 23|5 pages

Lectures II

chapter |9 pages

Epilogue