The Zen Master Takuan Sono (1573-1645) was a master of calligraphy, painting, gardening, martial arts, and the teacher of the Shogun Iemitsu, Yagyu Tajima-no-Kami (founder of Japan's greatest swordsmanship school) and Miyamoto Musashi (author of The Book of Five Rings).
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Text: English (translation)
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This review is from: Immovable Wisdom: The Art of Zen Strategy : The Teachings of Takuan Soho (Paperback)
this is a great book, sad to see it's out of stock, get it as soon as Amazon has it back. It's a little too deep so you'll want to read it again and again, but instead of just reading the deep concepts of Takuan, you awake to them as you read, it's like remembering something you, somehow, already knew.
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Zen Master Takuan Soho (1573-1645) was living proof of the saying, "If you are a master of Zen you can be a master of anything". Takuan was a master of calligraphy, painting, martial arts and gardening, and the abbot of Daitokuji, the leading Rinzai Temple in Kyoto. In this book we have an account of Takuan's life and translations of all his important writing.
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This review is from: Immovable Wisdom: The Art of Zen Strategy : The Teachings of Takuan Soho (Paperback)
Takuan Soho was one of the great traditional Zen masters of Japan's Middle Ages. He was influential in all strata of society and wrote to a wide range of persons about his thoughts on matters as wide ranging as sword usage and poetry. He was the youngest person selected to head a temple and lived up to the expectations of the Shogun. Well worth reading, and a good addition to the library of a person who likes to have some real insight into the mind of an excellent thinker.
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