Mel Weitsman Libros

When Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind was published in 1972, it was enthusiastically embraced by Westerners eager for spiritual insight and knowledge of Zen. The book became the most successful treatise on Buddhism in English, selling more than one million copies to date. Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness is the first follow-up volume to Suzuki Roshi's important work. Like Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind , it is a collection of lectures that reveal the insight, humor, and intimacy with Zen that made Suzuki Roshi so influential as a teacher. The Sandokai —a poem by the eighth-century Zen master Sekito Kisen (Ch. Shitou Xiqian)—is the subject of these lectures. Given in 1970 at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the lectures are an example of a Zen teacher in his prime elucidating a venerated, ancient, and difficult work to his Western students. The poem addresses the question of how the oneness of things and the multiplicity of things coexist (or, as Suzuki Roshi expresses it, "things-as-it-is"). Included with the lectures are his students' questions and his direct answers to them, along with a meditation instruction. Suzuki Roshi's teachings are valuable not only for those with a general interest in Buddhism but also for students of Zen practice wanting an example of how a modern master in the Japanese Soto Zen tradition understands this core text today.

Shunryu Suzuki (1904-1971), maître zen japonais de la lignée Soto, qui a introduit la pratique du bouddhisme zen aux Etats-Unis au début des années soixante, est l'auteur du célèbre Esprit zen, esprit neuf, l'un des classiques de la littérature zen contemporaine. Avec La source brille dans la lumière, son second ouvrage, il commente un texte essentiel du Zen Soto, le Sandokai, poème du VIIIe siècle du maître chinois Sekito Kisen. Dans un langage accessible, Shunryu Suzuki exprime toute l'essence et la subtilité du Zen, et permet à chacun d'approfondir son expérience et sa compréhension de l'enseignement bouddhique. Indispensable pour les pratiquants du Zen et pour tous ceux qui s'intéressent au bouddhisme, cet ouvrage précieux et vivant révèle la sagesse, la perspicacité et l'humour de celui qui fut l'un des plus influents maîtres bouddhistes du XXe siècle.