Practice of Zen Meditation

By Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle

A world-renowned Zen master presents a seven-day introduction to the techniques and disciplines of Zen meditation for both Christians and non-Christians. Features wise sayings from both Zen masters and Christian mystics. Photographs. Line drawings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852740590
• ISBN13: 9781852740597
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Thorsons Publishers
• Length: 123 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 9.0" x 0.4"

Customer Reviews

For westerners,a wonderful introduction

The late Fr. enomiya-lasalle, german jesuit and along with Frs.Henri la saux,Bede Griffiths, William Johnstin and Thomas Merton,are the great bridges from west to east. Fr Lasalle was a survivor of one of the Atomic blasts{a tv movie made about Hiroshima cast max von syndow as a composite],and an accepted Zen master while retaining his standing{as it was] as a catholic priest. the fact that he served in Japan with dom pedro arrupe, later to be general of the jesuits was certainly advantageous.This book, then is a compostite of fr enomiya -lasalle,a week long retreat ,as it were,a 7 day zen reatreat. The writing is non esoteric[somehow, zen can appear like quantum mechanics], clear and clean,like calligraphy. A wonderful intro, for people like me without the backround,though most definitely NOT A NEW AGE FUZZY WARM BOOK. There is effort[or better NON_EFFORT] involved here. Well, done, very well presented ....