(DOWNLOAD) "Original Nature" by Sokei-an Sasaki " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Original Nature
- Author : Sokei-an Sasaki
- Release Date : January 20, 2012
- Genre: Buddhism,Books,Religion & Spirituality,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2510 KB
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Original Nature is the historic translation and commentary on the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch of Chinese Zen by America's first Zen Master, Sokei-an Sasaki (1882-1945). Finally available, 75 years after its completion, Sokei-an considered the Sixth Patriach's message an essential foundation for the transmission of Zen to America
"I think the Sixth Patriarch never dreamed that his record... would be explained to Westerners in New York...
I feel that I am in a valley between huge mountains, and that the ancient simple minded woodcutters, fisherman, monks and nuns who are living in the mountains have come to the place where they always make their gatherings, and that I am one of them now..."