Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #304974 in Books
• Published on: 1988-09-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Customer Reviews

A Zen Classic
This book is one of the clearest and most inspiring books I have read. Katagiri's message is clear. Down to earth but at the same time giving the reader a different angle on mundane and spiritual aspects of Zen Bhuddism.

A book to be read and re-read
The silence of the title is our essential core of being. In these essays, Dainin Katagiri Roshi talks about how to connect with this core, and to let it penetrate and resound through the moments of our lives. Katagiri Roshi was a successor of Shunryu Suzuki (Zen Mind Beginner's Mind) and like the later, he is at once simple and deep. These talks are not discourses, but "live words," spoken from the heart. They penetrate, they beg read and read-read, to be taken in thoughtfully and thoroughly digested. Katagri, in my mind one of the great modern masters, died in the early 90's. He has left us with this wonderful volume & legacy on what it is to know our essential self and to live our lives in this knowledge.