When Roshi Philip Kapleau returned to the United States in 1966,
after thirteen years of training in Japan with two of the country's
greatest masters of Zen, he "did not come home empty-handed -- he
brought us a living word of Zen," Kenneth Kraft has said. The first
Westerner fully and naturally at home with Zen, Roshi Kapleau has
made it his life's work to translate Zen Buddhism into an American
idiom, to take Zen's essence and plant it in American soil. Four
decades later, the seeds of Zen that Roshi Kapleau planted have
blossomed. Zen flourishes and Roshi Kapleau continues to help
people find enlightenment and fulfillment "within, " not outside,
their daily lives. "True awakening," Roshi Kapleau has said, "is
not a 'high' that keeps one in the clouds of an abstract oneness,
but a realization that brings one solidly down to earth into the
world of toil and struggle."
Kapleau has written a number of books in his lifetime, "The
Three Pillars of Zen" the most well known among them, but the heart
of his work, his teachings to his students, has never before been
made available. "Awakening to Zen" extracts the vital threads of
Roshi Kapleau's teachings and braids them into a strong yet supple
cord that readers may follow toward a deeper understanding of the
enlightened life. Roshi Kapleau's warm, sometimes humorous but
always grounded lessons touch on every aspect of daily reality;
they capture his power, too, to transform the lives of not just
practicing Buddhists, but all people who seek to experience in a
more authentic way the bond they share with the world around them.
One way or another, Roshi Kapleau has spent the past forty-three
years of his life helping make Zen practice and its fruits
accessible to anyone of sincere intent. "Awakening to Zen" offers a
crucial and never-before-published aspect of his life's work.
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