Encouraging Words is a collection of short talks and brief essays that Aitken Rashi has offered his students at meditation retreats during the past two decades. They are arranged according to themes central to all spiritual seekers -- attention, emptiness, coming and going, diligence, death and the afterlife, the sacred self, and the moral path. Aitken provides guidance on pursuing religious practice in a lay context, "re-casting the Dharma to include women, jobs, and family." He also charts his own quest to develop a set of moral codes in keeping with Buddhism's basic precepts and honoring the enormous ethical challenges faced in the twentieth century.
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"The inspiration that guided monks and nuns in ancient times is our own deepest incentive as we establish our practice in a world that desperately needs new forms of kinship and love."
-- Robert Aitken
"Aitken's title says it all. Encouraging Words will appeal to both beginning and advanced Zen lay students who seek to integrate their spiritual practice into everyday life. Curious readers will be rewarded, too. Here is a teacher both wise and practical in equal measure."
-- RONN RONCK,
Honolulu Advertiser
Encouraging Words was nominated for the Tricycle Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Buddhism in America.
-- Robert Aitken
"Aitken's title says it all. Encouraging Words will appeal to both beginning and advanced Zen lay students who seek to integrate their spiritual practice into everyday life. Curious readers will be rewarded, too. Here is a teacher both wise and practical in equal measure."
-- RONN RONCK,
Honolulu Advertiser
Encouraging Words was nominated for the Tricycle Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Buddhism in America.
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Encouraging Words is a collection of short talks and brief essays that Aitken Rashi has offered his students at meditation retreats during the past two decades. They are arranged according to themes central to all spiritual seekers -- attention, emptiness, coming and going, diligence, death and the afterlife, the sacred self, and the moral path. Aitken provides guidance on pursuing religious practice in a lay context, "re-casting the Dharma to include women, jobs, and family." He also charts his own quest to develop a set of moral codes in keeping with Buddhism's basic precepts and honoring the enormous ethical challenges faced in the twentieth century.
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Great book! Very practical teaching for zen practice. I would recomend it to anyone learning zen.
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"Words in the Dojo" are edited from extemporaneous homilies I offered in retreats of Diamond Sangha centers over the years, from about 1978 to the present. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dokusan room, changing karma, ancestral teachers, shin gyo, nature pervades, insubstantial nature, abusing others, skillful means Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Zen Buddhist, New York, Zen Buddhism, San Francisco, Hakuin Zenji, Diamond Sangha, Heart Sutra, North Point Press, The Gateless Barrier, Eightfold Path, Middle Way, Robert Aitken, Thomas Cleary, Three Treasures, Buddha Sangha, Maka Hannya Haramita Shin, Right Views, Buddha Dharma, Grove Press, Right Recollection, University of Hawaii, Simone Weil, The Blue Cliff Record, Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddha Tao New!
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"Words in the Dojo" are edited from extemporaneous homilies I offered in retreats of Diamond Sangha centers over the years, from about 1978 to the present. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dokusan room, changing karma, ancestral teachers, shin gyo, nature pervades, insubstantial nature, abusing others, skillful means Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Zen Buddhist, New York, Zen Buddhism, San Francisco, Hakuin Zenji, Diamond Sangha, Heart Sutra, North Point Press, The Gateless Barrier, Eightfold Path, Middle Way, Robert Aitken, Thomas Cleary, Three Treasures, Buddha Sangha, Maka Hannya Haramita Shin, Right Views, Buddha Dharma, Grove Press, Right Recollection, University of Hawaii, Simone Weil, The Blue Cliff Record, Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddha Tao New!
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- Zen Buddhism by Daisetz T. Suzuki on 7 pages
- Manual of Zen Buddhism by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki on 6 pages
- The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-Neng (Shambhala Dragon Editions) by A. F. Price on 4 pages
- The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment by Roshi P. Kapleau on 4 pages
- The Blue Cliff Record by Thomas Cleary on 4 pages
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- Everyday Mind (Tricycle Book) by Jean Smith on 7 pages
- The Practice of Perfection: The Paramitas from a Zen Buddhist Perspective by Robert Aitken on 7 pages
- Developments in Australian Buddhism: Facets of the Diamond (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism) by Michelle Spuler on 6 pages
- A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen by Matsuo Basho on 4 pages
- The Morning Star: New and Selected Zen Writings by Robert Aitken on 4 pages
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