Sokei-an Sasaki (1882-1945), in many respects, was the original Dharma Bum: a sculptor, poet, Zen student, and journalist, whose favorite subject was America. He arrived in San Francisco in 1906 with the mission of bringing Zen to America. After his teacher returned to Japan in 1910, he wandered alone through the American West and lived a wild bohemian life in the Greenwich Village of the Roaring ‘20s. His accounts of his childhood in Meiji, Japan, his struggle to transform himself through Zen, his experiences teaching Zen to New Yorkers — which led to the founding of the First Zen Institute of America — his run-in with the FBI, and his internment on Ellis Island are all conveyed with charm and humor in this autobiography of one of the great pioneers who introduced Zen Buddhism to America. Photos are included.
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INTRODUCTION I Was a Dreamer When I Was a Child When My Father Died I Think There Is Someone Living in My Attic This Very Mind Is the Seat of Zen Practice Grave Me a Buddha Peeling the Skin from My Eye San Francisco, Medford, Seattle Living Over an Abyss Awakening IS My Teacher Footsteps in the Invisible World Seventieth Street Stories Fishing with a Straight Hook Cat's Yawn Your Uncle's Doghouse This Life Is Life after Death GLOSSARY ADDITIONAL SOURCE MATERIALS BIBLIOGRAPHY
