A teisho on case 38 of the Mumonkan, recorded at the centre he founded.
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American Zen teacher (1912–2004) who went to Japan as a court reporter at the Tokyo war crimes trials, stayed to train for thirteen years in the Harada-Yasutani tradition, and came back with The Three Pillars of Zen, the book through which a generation of Westerners first met the practice. He founded the Rochester Zen Center, and the teachers in his line now work on four continents.
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Direct meditative practice, zazen and everyday awareness in traditions rooted in Chinese Chan and its later forms.
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