Encouraging Words: Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students Paperback - 1994
by Robert Aitken
"Aitken's title says it all. Encouraging Words will appeal to both beginning and advanced lay Zen students who seek to integrate their spiritual practice into everyday life. Curious readers will be rewarded, too. Here is a teacher both wise and practical in equal measure".--Honolulu Advertiser. Now in paperback.
First line
"Words in the Dojo" are edited from extemporaneous homilies I offered in retreats of Diamond Sangha centers over the years, from about 1978 to the present.
From the jacket flap
Encouraging Words is a collection of short talks and brief essays that Aitken Rashi has offered his students at meditation retreats during the past two decades. They are arranged according to themes central to all spiritual seekers -- attention, emptiness, coming and going, diligence, death and the afterlife, the sacred self, and the moral path. Aitken provides guidance on pursuing religious practice in a lay context, "re-casting the Dharma to include women, jobs, and family." He also charts his own quest to develop a set of moral codes in keeping with Buddhism's basic precepts and honoring the enormous ethical challenges faced in the twentieth century.
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- Title Encouraging Words: Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students
- Author Robert Aitken
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 252
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pantheon Books, New York, New York, U.S.A
- Date 1994-09-06
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780679756521 / 0679756523
- Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.68 x 6.04 x 0.66 in (22.05 x 15.34 x 1.68 cm)
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- Religious Orientation: Buddhist
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92050467
- Dewey Decimal Code 294.344
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