Religion & Spirituality Books > Buddhism Books

Paperback Hakuin on Kensho: The Four Ways of Knowing Book

Share to Facebook

Share to Pinterest

Share to Twitter

ISBN: 1590303776

ISBN13: 9781590303771

Hakuin on Kensho: The Four Ways of Knowing

Name: Post satori training
Item: Hakuin on Kensho: The Four Ways of Knowing
Rating: 5
Author: Thriftbooks.com User

By Hakuin Ekaku and Albert Low

Select Format

Select Condition

You Might Also Enjoy

Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin

Hakuin Ekaku

from: $18.15

The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin

Hakuin Ekaku

from: $9.29

Zen and the Sutras (Tuttle Library of Enlightenment Series)

Albert Low

from: $10.89

Zen Meditation: Plain and Simple

Albert Low

from: $5.79

To Know Yourself: Talks, Stories, and Articles on Zen (Tuttle Library of Enlightenment)

Albert Low

from: $6.89

The Iron Cow of Zen

Albert Low

from: $5.69

What More Do You Want?: Zen Questions, Zen Answers

Albert Low

from: $6.79

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Shunryu Suzuki

from: $5.19

Manual of Zen Buddhism

D.T. Suzuki

from: $6.39

Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki

David Chadwick

from: $5.19

The Diamond Sutra and The Sutra of Hui-Neng

Hui-Neng, Christmas Humphreys, Anonymous, W.Y. Evans-Wentz

from: $9.49

An Invitation to Practice Zen

Albert Low

from: $5.19

Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice

Thich Nhat Hanh

from: $5.39

Shattering the Great Doubt: The Chan Practice of Huatou

Sheng-yen, 聖嚴法師

from: $21.79

Beating the Cloth Drum: Letters of Zen Master Hakuin

Norman Waddell, Hakuin Ekaku

from: $19.29

Sutra of Wei Lang Or Hui Neng

Hui-Neng, Thomas Cleary, Hsüan Hua, Wong Mou Lam

from: $5.89

The Complete Book of Zen (Tuttle Martial Arts)

Wong Kiew Kit, Kiew Kit Wong

from: $7.79

The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women

Florence Caplow, Susan Moon

from: $16.29

Taking the Path of Zen

Robert Aitken

from: $5.79

THE ZEN TEACHING OF HUANG PO (Shambhala Pocket Classics)

Huang Po

from: $9.29

Book Overview

Kensho is the Zen experience of waking up to one's own true nature--of understanding oneself to be not different from the Buddha-nature that pervades all existence. The Japanese Zen Master Hakuin (1689-1769) considered the experience to be essential. In his autobiography he says: "Anyone who would call himself a member of the Zen family must first achieve kensho-realization of the Buddha's way. If a person who has not achieved kensho says he is a follower of Zen, he is an outrageous fraud. A swindler pure and simple." Hakuin's short text on kensho, "Four Ways of Knowing of an Awakened Person," is a little-known Zen classic. The "four ways" he describes include the way of knowing of the Great Perfect Mirror, the way of knowing equality, the way of knowing by differentiation, and the way of the perfection of action. Rather than simply being methods for "checking" for enlightenment in oneself, these ways ultimately exemplify Zen practice. Albert Low has provided careful, line-by-line commentary for the text that illuminates its profound wisdom and makes it an inspiration for deeper spiritual practice. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1590303776

ISBN13:9781590303771

Release Date:September 2006

Publisher:Shambhala

Length:144 Pages

Weight:0.44 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.6" x 8.4"

Related Subjects

Buddhism Philosophy Religion Religion & Spirituality

Customer Reviews

3 customer ratings | 3 reviews

Write a Review

Rated 5 stars
Post satori training

By Thriftbooks.com User, February 5, 2008

Deep thanks, Albert Low for this wonderful little book! I have read 'Hakuin on Kensho' several times now and I keep it near me always as a constant and helpful friend in my daily practice. Hakuin in his other writings stresses over and over the importance of post-satori training to strengthen and deepen our vow to save all sentient beings. In this book too, we find him encouraging us, once we break through, to study the scriptures...

0Report

Rated 4 stars
Zazen, Kensho and Beyond

By Thriftbooks.com User, October 11, 2007

Albert Low (born in London in 1928), director of Montreal Zen Centre, a Dharma heir of Rochester NY's Philip Kapleau Roshi (author of the classic "Three Pillars of Zen", a well-respected independent teacher and student of Yasutani Roshi), has written a fine commentary on Hakuin's short (ten page) essay "The Four Ways of Knowing". The commentary, including notes and index is 129 pages long. From the title "Hakuin on Kensho:...

0Report

Rated 5 stars
Clarity and Emptiness

By Thriftbooks.com User, May 13, 2007

As a reader of many works explicating the teachings of Zen and other disciplines, this book is one of the best I've found yet. All of Low's books have this same characteristic simplicity, while illucidating some of the most profound teachings of his tradition. Hakuin's Kensho is a valuable tool for anyone who has been practicing for a while and is seeking to understand who and what it is that knows.

0Report