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The Wholehearted Way : A Translation of Ehihei Dogen's Bendowa by Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, Shohaku Okumura (Translator), Daniel Leighton (Translator), Taigen Daniel Leighton Master Dogen's 1231AD "Bendowa" is essential treatise on zazen (sitting meditiation). Highly recommended. Translated by the author of " Opening the Hand of Thought"

One of the Patriarchs was reading a book on the rules of practice. He came upon a directive that forbade the use of any skins of animals and realized he was sitting with a sheepskin over his stone bench. He immediately took the skin and threw it in the corner.

The very next line of text read, "... unless you require the animal skin for warmth". The master made haste to recover the stone with the sheepskin.

"'Survival' means 'putting into practice'"

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Zen Essays and Short Writings Zazen and Satori Excellent executive summary by the founder of Zen practice in Europe, Taisen Deshimaru Roshi Simple instructions for Shinjin "zazen" sitting Adapted by permission from a handout from Ven. Shikai Zuiko osho-ajari (Joan Woodward) of the White Wind Zen Community, originally published in the alt.recovery usenet groups The Tao of Breathing by Geoff Dawson of the Sydney Zen Centre Geoff begins with an observation on Samurai Breathing and how we just want to step up to people on exercise bicycles and say, "do you know you're not going anywhere?" (ps available) The Lazy Path: A Short Work of Spontaneity by Thyagi Tzu (Thyagi Morgoth NagaSiva) Being an expert is the bane of the lazy person. Thyagi leads us down the least-resistance path of perfected laziness. (ps available) Playing Ball on Running Water A Gentle Introduction to Constructive Living What began as a emailed blurb eventually grew to twice the size it should be --- my apologies to David Reynolds and Gregg Krech, either of whom could say the same in a tenth the space. Constructive Living Bookstore On-line catalog of books about Morita and Naikan, and the art of constructive living

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