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The Grass Flute Zen Master: Sodo Yokoyama (Paperback)
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The Grass Flute Zen Master: Sodo Yokoyama (Paperback)
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What motivated Sodo-san to spend the last twenty years of his life
in a "temple under the sky"- a corner of a public park where he
taught passersby what it means to be forever young through the
funky tunes he played on his grass flute? In The Grass Flute Zen
Master: Sodo Yokoyama, we are seeking not only a truer
understanding of this well-loved monk, but of zazen, Zen
meditation, itself. In his search for insights into Sodo Yokoyama's
life, Arthur Braverman skillfully weaves a tapestry from seemingly
disparate threads-the brief taisho period into which Sodo-san was
born and where individualism shone; his teachers, both ancient and
contemporary practitioners of Zen Bhuddism; the monk's love of
baseball; and the similarities Braverman finds between Sodo-san and
Walt Whitman, who both found the universal in nature.Through
conversations with Joko Shibata, Yokoyama's sole disciple, and
careful study of his teacher's poetry, an intriguing tension
between the personal and the universal is revealed. The Grass Flute
Zen Master is a meditative examination not of just one life, but of
many. The lineage of teacher and protege is traced back through
generations, contemporaries are drawn up from unexpected places,
and Braverman examines his own long journey in Zen Buddhism;
confronting his own expectations and surprising disappointments
(the monk lived in a boarding house and later took a cab to his
park when he could no longer walk the whole way) and the
understanding and acceptance that followed. "When you play the
leaf," Sodo-san once wrote, "you'll usually be a little out of
tune. That's where its very charm lies..."
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