The Three Pillars of Zen, Roshi Philip Kapleau
The Three Pillars of Zen, Roshi Philip Kapleau
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The Three Pillars of Zen
Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment

Author: Roshi Philip Kapleau

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Unabridged: 14 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/15/2017

Synopsis

In this classic work of spiritual guidance, the founder of the Rochester Zen Center presents a comprehensive overview of Zen Buddhism. Exploring the three pillars of Zen—teaching, practice, and enlightenment—Roshi Philip Kapleau, the man who founded one of the oldest and most influential Zen centers in the United States, presents a personal account of his own experiences as a student and teacher, and in so doing gives listeners invaluable advice on how to develop their own practices. Revised and updated, this edition features a new afterword by Sensei Bodhin Kjolhede, who succeeded Kapleau as spiritual director of the Rochester Zen Center. A moving, eye-opening work, The Three Pillars of Zen is the definitive introduction to the history and discipline of Zen.

About Roshi Philip Kapleau

Philip Kapleau was one of the founding fathers of American Zen. He made it his life's work to transplant Zen Buddhism into American soil, bridging the gap between theory and practice and making Zen Buddhism accessible to all.

After a successful career as a businessman, Philip Kapleau spent thirteen years undergoing Zen training in Japan under three Zen masters before being ordained by Hakuun Yasutani-roshi in 1965 and given permission by him to teach. In 1966 he published The Three Pillars of Zen, the first book to explain the practice of Zen to Westerners. Still in print today, Three Pillars is a Zen classic that has been translated into twelve languages. Shortly after the publication of Three Pillars, Roshi Kapleau came to Rochester to found the Zen Center. His other books include Zen: Merging of East and West, Straight to the Heart of Zen, Awakening to Zen, and The Zen of Living and Dying: A Practical and Spiritual Guide.

Roshi Kapleau died in May, 2004, at the age of ninety-one.

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Goodreads review by William2 on January 19, 2019

In his essays on Synchronicity C.G. Jung writes of the “acausal connecting principal” or what we in the West refer to as chance. Jung believed in events not connected causally, and thus unprovable in an empirical sense, but connected by the meaning we derive from them. Buddhism is the only nontheist......more

Goodreads review by robin on October 19, 2024

Searching For Mu There is a famous Zen koan (a Zen paradox which the student of Zen must resolve on the path to enlightenment) known as Mu. As recounted in this book (page 82) it goes like this: "A monk in all seriousness asked Joshu "has a dog Buddha-nature or not?" Joshu retorted "Mu!" A great deal......more

Goodreads review by Gabrielle on February 05, 2019

I was expecting a different kind of book when I picked up “The Three Pillars of Zen”; I think I was expecting a teaching book, with a clear plan (sort of like “On Zen Practice” [URL not allowed]), for lack of a better word, as where it is more a collection of interesting testi......more

Goodreads review by Viet on December 30, 2015

Must read for meditation practitioners. The book clearly explains in details all things about Japanese Zen. It is very useful, helpful for people who are learning and practicing Zen / Buddhism meditation. I will have to re-read it. As I can't consume everything in the first read. It's great though. PD......more

Goodreads review by Robert on October 04, 2012

First of all, language is conceptual, dividing the world up into categorical separations. The most basic instructions given for Zen practice should be sufficient to experience this simple, delicate, easy task. Yet we as westerners have been trained to reason, deduct, and to ask 'why?', at least that......more

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