Master Dogen's Zazen Meditation Handbook: A Translation of Eihei Dogen's Bendowa: A Discourse on the Practice of Zazen

An important book with good print size and reader-friendly format.

I found the message communicated through this book to be a rare gift -Author to Reader.Direct Transmission.... Could and should be read multiple times!

Very good book on Dogen’s very challenging writing about zen practice. Also read Kosho Uchiyama’s book “Opening the Hand of Thought” and any book by Shohaku Okumura. If these things float your boat, highly recommend.

This is an interesting and useful translation and commentary on Dogen Zenji's Bendowa, which provides extensive commentary for Dogen's reasons of why one should practice shikantaza (just sitting), but not Dogen's instructions for the practice as the title "Zazen Meditation Handbook" suggests. I recommendDogen's Fukanzazengi for specific instructions such as is explicated beautifully in Philippe Coupey's "Zen Simply Sitting" (2006). The other deception is that this edition is an exact reprint of "The Wholehearted Way" (1997) with a new title and no reference to the original publication date. Old wine in new bottles. Shame on you Tuttle!!! ~Seiso