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In Zen meditation, anything that comes in your mind will eventually leave, because nothing is permanent. A thought is like a cloud moving across the blue sky. Nothing can disturb that all-encompassing vastness. This is the Dharma.
In a collection of talks and anecdotes, Jakusho Kwong-roshi, a Dharma successor of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, presents his approach to Buddhist teaching. Containing photos of Kwong-roshi with his teachers, as well as a selection of his vibrant calligraphy, Mind Sky explores the profound beauty of Zen history and practice, nature, and the philosophy of the ancient Zen master Eihei Dogen.
With an elegant simplicity, Jakusho Kwong-roshi shows how Zen is experiential rather than intellectual. And with persistent practice, realization is already yours.
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How wonderful that in these pages Jakusho Kwong-roshi shares the wisdom of a lifetime dedicated to Zen practice! This is a Dharma feast for us all to partake of. It seems that the essential Soto Zen practice is analogous to aspects of Mahamudra, pointing to the similarity in the Buddhist approach to understanding the mind. We welcome this clear instruction lighting the way to direct realization of the nature of the mind.
VEN. TENZIN PALMO
Mind Sky is Jakusho Kwong-roshi at his best! As ever, his teaching is direct and straightforward, full of compassion, wisdom, and gentle humor. He teaches that Zen practice encompasses samadhi and vipassana, but that Zen meditation goes beyond, to a state of silent illumination shikantaza just sitting. He emphasizes that realization can come through ones own experience, not only on the meditation cushion but in normal day-to-day life. Kwong-roshis unique calligraphy in Mind Sky expresses a state of mind as vast and clear as the unclouded sky. Congratulations on this new book!
DHAMMANANDA BHIKKHUNI [Chatsumarn Kabilsingh]
Kwong-roshi has been a true friend to my family and to students of Chgyam Trungpa Rinpoche for many years. That he is a deeply realized teacher is evident in his new book, Mind Sky. He joins practical instruction in sitting meditation with his profound but effortless understanding of the nature of things as they are. He shows us how to live and practice always in the present moment. I know that countless readers will benefit from this new volume, based on his teachings at Sonoma Mountain Zen Center.
DRUK SAKYONG WANGMO [Lady Diana, widow of Chgyam Trungpa Rinpoche]
In Mind Sky, Jakusho Kwong-roshi points at practice and realization in our everyday life, and compassionately encourages us in our practice. Mind Sky invites us to become deeply intimate with our life and, in the process, embody the profound teachings from our ancient predecessors.
CHADE-MENG TAN, author of Search Inside Yourself and Joy on Demand
Jakusho Kwong-roshi
IN ZEN MEDITATION, ANYTHING THAT COMES INYOUR MIND WILL EVENTUALLY LEAVE, BECAUSE NOTHINGIS PERMANENT. A THOUGHT IS LIKE A CLOUD MOVING ACROSSTHE BLUE SKY. NOTHING CAN DISTURB THATALL-ENCOMPASSING VASTNESS.THIS IS THE DHARMA.
Jakusho Kwong-roshi, a Dharma successor of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, delivers practical instructions for Zen practice with elegant simplicity in this collection of talks and anecdotes. Weaving together teachings, stories, photos with his teachers, and a selection of his vibrant calligraphy, Kwong-roshi invites you to join him as he explores the profound beauty of Zen history and practice, nature, and the philosophy of the ancient Zen master Eihei Dgen.
Youll discover how Zen is experiential rather than intellectual, and learn how to take your practice beyond sitting meditation to embody profound teachings in your everyday life and with persistent practice, to discover realization is already yours.
Jakusho Kwongs new book is filled with deep insights, personal recollections, and classic Zen stories. Mind Sky will appeal to beginning students and old timers in Zen alike.
Hee-Jin Kim, author of Eihei Dgen: Mystical Realist
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kwong, Jakusho, author. | Scoville, Sally, editor.
Title: Mind sky: Zen teaching on living and dying / Jakusho Kwong; foreword by Shhaku Okumura; edited by Sally Scoville.
Description: First. | Somerville: Wisdom Publications, 2022.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021034795 (print) | LCCN 2021034796 (ebook) | ISBN 9781614297598 (paperback) | ISBN 9781614297789 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Zen Buddhism Essence, genius, nature. | Zen Buddhism History. | Dgen, 12001253.
Classification: LCC BQ9265.9 .K96 2022 (print) | LCC BQ9265.9 (ebook) | DDC 294.3/927 dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021034795
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021034796
ISBN 978-1-61429-759-8 ebook ISBN 978-1-61429-778-9
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Calligraphy by Jakusho Kwong. Cover design by Marc Whitaker.
Interior design by Gopa & Ted2, Inc.
Printed in the United States of America.
Dedicated to
Shunryu Suzuki-roshi and Hoitsu Suzuki-roshi
and to the myriad beings who are all on the same journey.
May these unspoken words be useful.
During zazen, anything that comes in your mind will
eventually leave, because nothing is permanent.
A thought is like a little cloud moving across the blue sky.
Nothing disturbs that all-encompassing vastness.
T HE TITLE OF Jakusho Kwongs book, Mind Sky, reminds me of an expression of the Chinese Zen master Sekito: The vast sky does not obstruct white clouds floating freely.
Jakusho Kwong tells us that one of the Buddhas universal precepts is clarifying the mind, clearing it of obstructions that is, all the distracting, dualistic, delusive thinking of our troubled everyday lives. The purpose of Zen meditation zazen is just this: to clarify the mind. And we can do this not only in seated meditation but all the time in our ordinary lives.
This is an extraordinary period for the entire human world. The years 2020 and 2021 brought the COVID-19 pandemic. We have many natural disasters around the world, such as typhoons, hurricanes, forest fires, locust plagues, drought. Not only are there these difficulties caused by nature, but we also have the many human problems that cause separation between people and between nations. Although this is really a difficult, sad, and painful time, it is also an opportunity to reflect on how we can best live in modern society and to try to find out how we can live harmoniously with all beings in nature. We see separation but also interconnection. We need to work with all the natural disasters, but we also need to work on inner obstacles caused by the human self-centered mind. To do so, we need to discover the Mind Sky that includes everything and supports everything without discrimination. In this book, Kwong-roshi gives Dharma discourses on various important points in Zen practice itself. He frequently emphasizes the importance of understanding impermanence, which the title refers to, and of transcending dualistic thinking, seeing everything without discrimination.
A bit of history: In 1972, when I began to practice at Antai-ji with Uchiyama-roshi, he asked me to study English. Many Westerners came there to practice with him, and Uchiyama-roshi thought there should be some Japanese practitioners with a clear understanding of the Buddhas and Dogen Zenjis teachings, and thorough experience of zazen practice, who would be able to express the Dharma in English for the future development of Zen Buddhism outside Japan. He sent me and two other disciples to an English school in Osaka that was run by one of Shunryu Suzuki-roshis disciples. Until then, I had not been at all interested in learning English, but somehow I could not say no to my teacher. I studied English there for three years. In this way I began to feel a strong connection to Suzuki-roshi and, subsequently, I connected with one of his first students, Jakusho Kwong.
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