Dear Friends
Roshi’s new book Zen & Health, written in partnership with Hajime Iwamoto, is now available for purchase at the zendo.
The 40% discounted price for paperback is $12 and for hardbound is $24
(We are still assessing what shipping charges will be for anyone wanting it shipped.)
Gassho, Rick
(You can buy to pick up at the center or pay using Paypal at MZC web “Home,”
adding $3 for now for postage/handling.)
Promotion site with authors’ bio can be found:
http://www.zen-and-health.com/
(the following is from “Home” page of the above site:)
All beings are karma-heirs, karma-relatives, and karma-machines.
The Four Applications are to decrease bad karmas, stop them, increase good karmas, and start them.-Budha
The great way of the Buddhas and Ancestors necessarily has the unsurpassed practice, the way cycling without interruption.
Aspiration, cultivation, awakening, and nirvana have no interruption,which is the way cycle of practice-Dogen
Authors Hajime Iwamoto and Rosan Osamu Yoshida reveal the essence of Zen to one’s health in a new perspective through his new publication, Zen & Health.
This book tells the true significance, necessity, merits, and possibility of the practice of Zen, Awakened Way, and the wholly wholesome way in everyone’s all daily activities and throughout one’s whole life in a new, original perspective and prognosis of them.
Zazen, sitting meditation, stops all karmas be it physical, verbal, mental actions and action results. It became our psycho-physical beings and behaviors. Thus, we witness primordial purity, peace and prognosis.
Zen is the core practice (cultivation/verification) of the Awakened Way (Buddhism), realizing unconditioned peace (nirvana) and unsurpassed awakening (anuttara sambodhi) into existence and wakeful life by them in the wholly wholesome way and world.
From this vantage point it pervades and penetrates through all actions in harmonious, healthy, happy breathing, body-mouth-mind bearing, cooking, eating, executing errands, cultivating capacities, sporting in skills, etc.
Anyone can come and see the detailed description of how Zen is applied and appreciated in breathing, calming and clearing minds and hearts, cooking, eating, sporting, doing duties, transforming the life ways and world in this book.