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摘要
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 SandokaiNa poem by the eighth-century Zen master Sekito Kisen (Ch. Shitou Xiqian)Nis 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.
目次
INTRODUCTION SEKITO KISEN AND THE SANDOKAI NOTES TO THE READER THE SANDOKAI FIRST TALK: Things-As-It-Is SECOND TALK: Warm Hand to Warm Hand THIRD TALK: Buddha Is Always Here FOURTH TALK: The Blue Jay Will Come Right into Your Heart FIFTH TALK: Today We May Be Very Happy SIXTH TALK: The Boat Is Always Moving SEVENTH TALK: Without Any Idea of Attainment EIGHTH TALK: Within Light There Is Utter Darkness NINTH TALK: The Willow Tree Cannot Be Broken TENTH TALK: Suffering Is a Valuable Thing A SHORT TALK DURING ZAZEN ELEVENTH TALK: We Should Not Stick to Words or Rules TWELFTH TALK: Do Not Pass Your Days and Nights in Vain TALK GIVEN TO A VISITING CLASS: We Are Just a Tiny Speck of Big Being THE SANDOKAI: Compiled Translation by Suzuki Roshi LINEAGE CHART OF TEACHERS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT
