Takuan Soho (1573–1645)
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The Zen master Takuan Soho (1573-1645) was living proof of the saying' if you are a master of Zen you can be a master of anything'. He was a master of calligraphy, painting, gardening, and martial arts, as well as of many other things.
He became Abbot of the Daitokuji, the leading Rinzai Zen Temple in Kyoto, and was the founder of the Tokaiji Temple in Edo in Tokyo. As a teacher of Zen, his pupils included the de facto ruler of Japan, the third Tokugawa Shogun Iemitsu, and also Yagyu Tajima-no-kami, the founder of one of Japan's greatest swordsmanship schools. He also inspired Miyamoto Musashi, author of The Book of Five Rings and the greatest swordsman and master of strategy ever produced by Japan.
In this book we have an account of Takuan's life, and translations of his most important writings, as well as anecdotes that encapsulate the essence of his teaching, which is as relevant today as it was in this own turbulent era.
Takuan's teaching stressed that true wisdom is immovable: that is, through training one's awareness can be freed from the influence of external events, and one's response to the unexpected can become lightning-fast.
Nobuko Hirose is a translator and writer who has lived in England for more than twenty years. She comes from an old Japanese Zen family and is uniquely qualifed to present Takuan Soho to us.
Contents
Foreword: The invention of Takuan-zuke
1 Zen life, zen death: The history of Takuan
2 Relationships
3 The wondrous record of immovable wisdom
4 The sword, Taia: The mysteries of strategy
5 A taste of Takuan: Anecdotes of the master
6 The serene sound of gems
7 Tokai: Evening tales
8 The gate to serenity: The essence of Buddhism
9 Takuan's perennial teaching
Notes
Bibliography… (mehr)
He became Abbot of the Daitokuji, the leading Rinzai Zen Temple in Kyoto, and was the founder of the Tokaiji Temple in Edo in Tokyo. As a teacher of Zen, his pupils included the de facto ruler of Japan, the third Tokugawa Shogun Iemitsu, and also Yagyu Tajima-no-kami, the founder of one of Japan's greatest swordsmanship schools. He also inspired Miyamoto Musashi, author of The Book of Five Rings and the greatest swordsman and master of strategy ever produced by Japan.
In this book we have an account of Takuan's life, and translations of his most important writings, as well as anecdotes that encapsulate the essence of his teaching, which is as relevant today as it was in this own turbulent era.
Takuan's teaching stressed that true wisdom is immovable: that is, through training one's awareness can be freed from the influence of external events, and one's response to the unexpected can become lightning-fast.
Nobuko Hirose is a translator and writer who has lived in England for more than twenty years. She comes from an old Japanese Zen family and is uniquely qualifed to present Takuan Soho to us.
Contents
Foreword: The invention of Takuan-zuke
1 Zen life, zen death: The history of Takuan
2 Relationships
3 The wondrous record of immovable wisdom
4 The sword, Taia: The mysteries of strategy
5 A taste of Takuan: Anecdotes of the master
6 The serene sound of gems
7 Tokai: Evening tales
8 The gate to serenity: The essence of Buddhism
9 Takuan's perennial teaching
Notes
Bibliography… (mehr)
from cover
In the life-and-death situation of being sword tip to sword tip with the enemy, where should the swordsman put his mind?
This is the first question posed in the first of these three essays written by a Zen master for the guidance of samurai swordsmen. Among the other questions that arise are the difference between the right mind and the confused mind, what makes life precious, the nature of right-mindedness, the Buddhist paradign of form and consciousness and what it is that distinguishes the True Mind. So succinct are the author's insights that these writings have outlasted the disolution of the samurai class to come down to the present and be read for guidance and inspiration by the captains of business and industry, as well as those devoted to the practice of the martial arts in their modern form.
The history of the sword in Japan goes back to antiquity. Zen and its meditative practices also have a long history, but it was not until the rule of the Tokugawa shoguns, beginning in the early 1600's, that the techniques of swordsmanship fused with the spirit of Zen. And if one man can be said to have been the prime mover in this phenomenon, it was none other than Takuan Soho, confidant and religious instructor to an emperor, to the legendary sword master Miyamoto Musashi and to the heads of the most important sword schools of the time.
The three essays presented here for the first time in complete, annotated literary translations are all well known, but two of them especially-Fudochishinmyoroku and Taiaki-are classics of Zen swordsmanship.
The author: Takuan Soho (1573-1645) was a prelate of the Rinzai Sect of Zen, well remembered for his strength of character and acerbic wit; and he was also gardener, poet, tea master, prolific author and a pivotal figuire in zen painting and calligraphy. His religious training began at the age of ten. He entered the Rinzai sect at the age of fourteen and was appointed abbot of the Daitokuji, a major Zen temple in Kyoto, at the age of thirty-five. After a disagreement on ecclesiastical appointments with the second Tokugawa shogun, he was banished in 1629 to a far northern province. Coming under a general amnesty on the death of the shogun, he returned to society three years later to be, among other things, a confidant of the third Tokugawa shogun.
The translator: William Scott Wilson took his B.A. at Dartmouth Colletge, graduated as a Japanese specialist form the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies, and received his M.A. in Japanese literature from the University of Washington. He became acquainted with Japan at first-hand in 1966 on a coastal expedition-by kayak-form the western Japanese port of Sasebo to Tokyo. He later lived in the potters' village of Bizen, studied as a special student at Aichi Prefectural University, and was a counselor at the Japanese Consulate-General in Seattle. He now lives in his native Florida.
Among his highly regarded translations of original works of literature are Hagakure: The A Book of the Samurai and The Roots of Wisdom: Saikontan.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
The Lusterious Record of Immovable Wisdom
The Clear Sound of Jewels
Annals of the Sword Taia
Notes
Bibliography… (mehr)
In the life-and-death situation of being sword tip to sword tip with the enemy, where should the swordsman put his mind?
This is the first question posed in the first of these three essays written by a Zen master for the guidance of samurai swordsmen. Among the other questions that arise are the difference between the right mind and the confused mind, what makes life precious, the nature of right-mindedness, the Buddhist paradign of form and consciousness and what it is that distinguishes the True Mind. So succinct are the author's insights that these writings have outlasted the disolution of the samurai class to come down to the present and be read for guidance and inspiration by the captains of business and industry, as well as those devoted to the practice of the martial arts in their modern form.
The history of the sword in Japan goes back to antiquity. Zen and its meditative practices also have a long history, but it was not until the rule of the Tokugawa shoguns, beginning in the early 1600's, that the techniques of swordsmanship fused with the spirit of Zen. And if one man can be said to have been the prime mover in this phenomenon, it was none other than Takuan Soho, confidant and religious instructor to an emperor, to the legendary sword master Miyamoto Musashi and to the heads of the most important sword schools of the time.
The three essays presented here for the first time in complete, annotated literary translations are all well known, but two of them especially-Fudochishinmyoroku and Taiaki-are classics of Zen swordsmanship.
The author: Takuan Soho (1573-1645) was a prelate of the Rinzai Sect of Zen, well remembered for his strength of character and acerbic wit; and he was also gardener, poet, tea master, prolific author and a pivotal figuire in zen painting and calligraphy. His religious training began at the age of ten. He entered the Rinzai sect at the age of fourteen and was appointed abbot of the Daitokuji, a major Zen temple in Kyoto, at the age of thirty-five. After a disagreement on ecclesiastical appointments with the second Tokugawa shogun, he was banished in 1629 to a far northern province. Coming under a general amnesty on the death of the shogun, he returned to society three years later to be, among other things, a confidant of the third Tokugawa shogun.
The translator: William Scott Wilson took his B.A. at Dartmouth Colletge, graduated as a Japanese specialist form the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies, and received his M.A. in Japanese literature from the University of Washington. He became acquainted with Japan at first-hand in 1966 on a coastal expedition-by kayak-form the western Japanese port of Sasebo to Tokyo. He later lived in the potters' village of Bizen, studied as a special student at Aichi Prefectural University, and was a counselor at the Japanese Consulate-General in Seattle. He now lives in his native Florida.
Among his highly regarded translations of original works of literature are Hagakure: The A Book of the Samurai and The Roots of Wisdom: Saikontan.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
The Lusterious Record of Immovable Wisdom
The Clear Sound of Jewels
Annals of the Sword Taia
Notes
Bibliography… (mehr)
REVIEW from LibraryThing:
This book contains a collection of three letters/essays from Takuan Soho to masters of the sword arts. They contain some incredible gems. This book should not just be read; but reflected upon.As another reviewer said, "The ideas of the interval between striking flint and steel to the production of the spark, or the visual and mental image of the glint of light on the blade of a sword become captivating and even revelatory." I could not have said it any better myself.
This book contains a collection of three letters/essays from Takuan Soho to masters of the sword arts. They contain some incredible gems. This book should not just be read; but reflected upon.As another reviewer said, "The ideas of the interval between striking flint and steel to the production of the spark, or the visual and mental image of the glint of light on the blade of a sword become captivating and even revelatory." I could not have said it any better myself.
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So what makes it relevant today? Takuan Soho renders crisp advisory guidance which emphasizes that contrary to popular religious thought (in the East at least), the human mind is not to be made static. Rather, it is to be unfettered of all coagulation. The mind must flow like water rather than statify.
William Scott has done an exceptional job in preserving both the brevity and essence of the original text while rendering it in lay English. A marvelous read indeed.… (mehr)