Zen for Americans. Sermons of a Buddhist abbot by Soyen Shaku. Translated by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. Narrated by Denis Daly.
In a world riddled with irreconcilable conflict among doctrinaire religions, Soyen Shaku’s crisp and incisive commentaries on Buddhism come across as particularly engaging. Shaku’s eminently reasonable worldview and his skillful exposition of a truly universal definition of divinity and its inevitable necessity are both compelling and difficult to refute. In particular, this collection of discourses probes deeply and revealingly into the fundamental questions that occupy the minds of believers and unbelievers alike: why men cultivate religion in the first place and what the secret of its persistent vitality is.
Contents:
- Translator’s Preface
- The Sutra of Forty-Two Chapters
- The God-Conception
- Assertions and Denials
- Immortality
- Buddhist Faith
- Buddhist Ethics
- What Is Buddhism?
- The Middle Way
- The Wheel of the Good Law
- The Phenomenal and the Supra-Phenomenal
- Reply to a Christian Critic
- Ignorance and Enlightenment
- Spiritual Enlightenment
- Practice of Dhyana
- Kwannon Bosatz
- Buddhism and Oriental Culture
- The Story of Deer Park
- The Story of the Gem-Hunting
- The Sacrifice for a Stanza
- Buddhist View of War
- At the Battle of Nan-Shan Hill
- A Memorial Address for Those Who Died in the Russo-Japanese War
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