No Fear Zen: Discovering Balance in an Unbalanced World, by Richard Collins
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No Fear Zen presents an approach to Zen practice that focuses on concentration and sitting (shikantaza) as a discipline that can be practiced in everyday life with the dedication of the samurai. And in a world that requires bravery and decisive action in addition to generosity and compassion, we can learn much from the now-extinct samurai in creating a new kind of warrior for peace in the twenty-first century. While some practices focus on compassion and mindfulness as the goals of Zen practice, No Fear Zen contends that these are outcomes that occur naturally, spontaneously, and automatically from right practice without any goal or object whatsoever. In this way, No Fear Zen is the sequel to the author’s edition of Deshimaru’s Mushotoku Mind, which encouraged practice for one purpose only, the purpose of no purpose, the gain of no gain, the profit of no profit. The brief Zen talks that constitute the core of the book continue the tradition of spontaneous oral teachings delivered by the teacher (or roshi) during zazen. The collection might remind some of the classic Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, since the talks can serve either as an introduction to those beginning practice or as a manual for those interested in a structured approach to Zen practice. The tone of the talks ranges from humorous and informal to penetrating and philosophical, with references to day-to-day issues we all face as well as to works of literature. For example, several essays instruct in how to sit, how to manage mind and emotions, while others roam into difficult arenas, like the author’s experience in bringing zazen instruction to those incarcerated in a federal penitentiary. As a professor of arts and humanities, Dr. Collins uses great literature, like Shakespeare’s Hamlet, to demonstrate his case for fearless action uncomplicated by over-thinking. The collection ends with a sustained commentary on the twenty-one deathbed teachings of the samurai Miyamoto Musashi to his student Terao Magonojo. This provides a suitable conclusion to the work, which has focused on concentration and discipline for their own sake with the result of dispelling fear of death and fear of life. As the author’s teacher, Robert Livingston, always said, coming to zazen was like climbing into your coffin, but after zazen there was “no fear.”
No Fear Zen: Discovering Balance in an Unbalanced World, by Richard Collins- Amazon Sales Rank: #1815902 in Books
- Brand: Collins, Richard
- Published on: 2015-06-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 750
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .67" w x 5.50" l, .87 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 264 pages
Review "A beautiful memoir full of lively anecdotes and a suspenseful story of all-too-human masters and all-too-serious disciples. In the end, Zen appears to be a most desirable solution to the restless mess most of us call life." -- Andrei Codrescu, Whatever Gets You Through the Night"Coming to zazen is like climbing into your coffin, but after zazen there is “no fear.” -- Robert Livingston, zen teacher
About the Author A literary scholar & Zen teacher in the lineage of Taisen Deshimaru, Collins is Dean of Arts & Humanities at Calif. University, Bakersfield. He has held several research fellowships, including a Fulbright Senior Lectureship (Romania), and has taught at the American U. in Bulgaria, Louisiana State U., & Xavier U., where he was editor of the Xavier Review. He received monastic ordination from Robert Livingston Roshi (New Orleans Zen Temple), and Kosen Nishiyama Roshi (Sendai Temple, Japan). He founded Zen Fellowship of Alexandria (LA) & Zen Fellowship of Bakersfield (CA).
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. These discussions of Zen practice are the verbal record―both spoken and written―of a decade or more of reflections on my engagement with the practice of zazen and with my teacher Robert Livingston Roshi, Abbot of the New Orleans Zen Temple. It is also the record of my engagement with my own students, since I have found it is the student who certifies the teacher. Each teacher is a nexus of inheritance and legacy, a recipient of a great gift from the past and a bearer of great responsibility to the future. Most of all, even though addressed to a general audience, this book is a record of my own struggles with Zen, especially with the role of bringing a great faith in everyday Zen practice into balance with a great doubt in the meaning of existence in an unbalanced world. The assertions expressed here as pronouncements and certainties are the result of many hours of taciturnity and uncertainty. …These words are the traces of those struggles left in the ashes of a great fire of doubt, but in the end are only words, charred finger bones pointing at the moon. Nevertheless, because they result from experience, they point the way without fear of contradiction. The title of this book captures the spirit of Zen in the tradition of Taisen Deshimaru and Kodo Sawaki, a spirit of concentration on the great matter of life and death in the uncompromising attitude of the samurai, the spirit of “No Fear Zen.” Whatever we may think of the specific actions of those Japanese warriors or the causes they fought for, we must respect the concentrated effort of discipline and self-sacrifice that marked their distinctive way of life. And in a world that requires bravery and decisive action in addition to generosity and compassion, we can learn much from the now-extinct samurai in creating a new kind of bodhisattva warrior for peace in the twenty-first century. The particulars described here are in the tradition of Budo Zen, the Zen of “no fear.” In this tradition the importance of the emptiness (ku) of all phenomena (shiki) puts our own lives in perspective with all other phenomena, which are also empty of substance. We learn this through the practice of zazen, from which we emerge not as nihilists intent on shortening our allotted time, but as humanists dedicated to enriching the brief existence we share with all other beings. We can do this only if we are unafraid of life and death, if we are able to, as Hakuin said, “die now!”
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. No Fear Zen, an outstanding presentation of the Sawaki/Deshimaru path of Zen Buddhism By Lawrence M. White Richard, I have finished reading your book and I am pleased that we now have a book which teaches the path of our lineage with compassion and understanding. The emphasis on “just sit” remains as it should but it becomes a path to the end of the illusion of self and, consequently, an end to attachment and an opening to compassion. A student can read your book and discover a lineage with “soul” which cares for and understands the challenges and difficulties faced by the student of our path without harshness or judgment. Many of the pitfalls and dangers on the path are addressed in an understandable way without making people wrong. The hardest truth to teach and the “issue” most easily avoided is the illusion of a separate and permanent self. You touch on this in a way which denies the possibility of “understanding” and thus avoids an easy denial of this core reality.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Clear writing holds a reader the way an empty bowl holds nothing and yet everything By Deborah Salazar Lovely book. I could feel Richard Collins’ breathing and posture from here in how sentences and paragraphs were constructed. My favorite chapter was “Zazen Does Zazen” which read like a Japanese poem. I passed the book to my husband, a retired philosophy professor who has an academic aversion to all things Buddhist, because I knew he would be attracted to Collins’ dislike of words like “spirituality” and “mindfulness.” The clear writing, the perfect sentences and disciplined structure of the book, which in the age of bloggy memoirs and rambling narratives, made the Sunday morning I read it an especially engaged, intense time. The writing is so good. If you'll forgive me a zen-like turn of phrase, clear writing holds a reader the way an empty bowl holds nothing and yet everything. Admittedly, most of my knowledge of zen has always been superficial, coming from stories from manga and anime and a smattering of classes. I taught at Naropa in Boulder a couple summers and came away with this sense that American Buddhism was an itchy sweater that didn’t fit; this book brought up so many of my old questions about zen practice and maybe if it didn’t answer them all, it gave me permission not to put on anything itchy. There’s a chapter late in the book about Hamlet and Sophie’s Choice—maybe I should not have been surprised that Richard Collins, an academic, would talk about literature to clarify Buddhist concepts. By this time, though, I’d become so at ease with his familiar erasures of self, expectations, and outcomes that expressions of doubt seemed as natural as I’d always experienced doubt to be—it’s at this point, Collins coins the term “right mindlessness.” Stuff worth reading for the young grasshopper or for the more advanced student. Collins teaches with humor and clarity, and I’ve come away wanting to know more.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Not only is this wonderful book a worthy addition to the zen literature produced ... By Amazon Customer Not only is this wonderful book a worthy addition to the zen literature produced by those in the Deshimaru lineage, it is in my opinion the best. This is in my new favorite top 10 books on zen
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