Living by vow: a practical introduction to eight essential zen chants and texts

Description

A Sot Zen priest and Dharma successor of Kosho Uchiyama Roshi explores eight of Zen's most essential and universal liturgical texts and explains how the chants in these works support meditation and promote a life of freedom and compassion.;Living by vow : the four Bodhisattva vows -- Awakening to incompleteness : the verse of repentance -- Final shelter : the verse of the three refuges -- Cultivating the virtuous field : the robe chant -- Continuous circle of offering : the meal chants -- Sound of emptiness : the Heart sutra -- All is one, one is all : merging of difference and unity -- Endless practice here and now : the verse for opening the sutra. Living by vow : the four Bodhisattva vows -- Awakening to incompleteness : the verse of repentance -- Final shelter : the verse of the three refuges -- Cultivating the virtuous field : the robe chant -- Continuous circle of offering : the meal chants -- Sound of emptiness : the Heart sutra -- All is one, one is all : merging of difference and unity -- Endless practice here and now : the verse for opening the sutra.