{"product_id":"branching-streams-flow-in-the-darkness-by-shunryu-suzuki-9780520232129","title":"Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's \u003cem\u003eZen Mind, Beginner's Mind\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 1972, it was enthusiastically embraced by Westerners eager for spiritual insight and knowledge of Zen. The book became one of the most successful treatises on Buddhism in English, selling more than one million copies to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBranching Streams Flow in the Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e is the first follow-up volume to Suzuki Roshi's important work. Like \u003cem\u003eZen Mind, Beginner's Mind\u003c\/em\u003e, it is a collection of lectures that reveal the insight, humour and intimacy with Zen that made Suzuki Roshi so influential as a teacher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe \"Sandokai\"—a poem by the 8th-century Zen master Sekito Kisen (Ch. Shitou Xiqian)—is the subject of these lectures. Given in 1970 at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the lectures are an example of a Zen teacher in his prime elucidating a venerated, ancient and difficult work to his Western students. The poem addresses the question of how the oneness of things and the multiplicity of things coexist (or, as Suzuki Roshi expresses it, \"things-as-it-is\").\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncluded with the lectures are his students' questions and his direct answers to them, along with a meditation instruction. Suzuki Roshi's teachings are valuable not only for their spiritual insights but also for their relevance to modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595859804396,"sku":"9780520232129","price":50.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520232129-branching-streams-flow-in-the-darkness.jpg?v=1777909440","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/branching-streams-flow-in-the-darkness-by-shunryu-suzuki-9780520232129","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}