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That is not your mind!, Zen reflections on the Surangama Sutra, Robert Rosenbaum ; foreword by Norman Fischer

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-296)

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non fiction

That is not your mind!

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Robert Rosenbaum ; foreword by Norman Fischer

Zen reflections on the Surangama Sutra

"What does it mean to experience freedom in and through one's sensory life? In Seeing Freedom, Zen teacher Robert Rosenbaum explores this question by taking readers on a step-by-step journey through the Surangama Sutra. This classic Zen sutra is known for its emphasis on practicing with the senses (sight, sound, taste, smell, touch, and the Buddhist "sixth sense" of mind or cognition), as well as its teachings on the necessity of basic ethical commitments, like not killing or stealing, to support the development of one's meditation practice and insight. Rosenbaum interweaves passages from the sutra with contemporary insights from neuroscience and psychology, illustrating the usefulness of the text with anecdotes from his life and his forty years of teaching experience. In addition to learning about a sutra that played an important role in the creation of Chinese Chan and Japanese Zen Buddhism, readers are guided through meditations and other practices derived from the sutra's teachings"--, Provided by publisher

Foreword / by Norman Fischer -- Introduction -- Part I. Mind: 1. The request for dharma: practice -- What and why? -- 2. Temptation and intention: The context for the teaching -- 3. The nature and location of the mind: unreal -- 4. The nature of visual awareness: seeing and believing -- 5. The matrix of the thus-come-one: The matrix -- 6. The coming into being of the world of illusion (I): Let's pretend -- 7. The coming into being of the world of illusion (II): Is is not -- Part II. Heart: 8. Instructions for practice: sound meditation -- 9. Twenty-five sages speak of enlightenment: untying the knots -- 10. The Bodhisattva who hears the cries of the world: hearing the cries of the world -- 11. Four clear and definitive instructions on purity: Sex! Murder! Theft! Lies! -- 12. Establishing a place for awakening: space in mind -- 13. The surangama mantra: communing with the source -- 14. Twelve classes of beings: truth of consequences -- 15. Fifty demonic states of mind: accumulating nothing -- 16. The merit of teaching the surangama dharma: reverence and joy -- Appendix I: Hearing meditation -- Appendix II: Meditation with the center -- Appendix III: Twenty-five sages and their practice methods -- Notes -- About the author

Zen reflections on the Surangama Sutra