The inspiration that guided monks and nuns in ancient times is our own deepest incentive as we establish our practice in a world that desperately needs new forms of kinship and love.
Aitken was given the title Rōshi and was authorized to teach by Yamada Kōun Rōshi in 1974; he received full transmission from Yamada Rūshi in 1985..
In 1959 he and his wife, Anne, established the Diamond Sangha, a Zen Buddhist society with headquarters in Hawaii.
Suzuki and studied with Nakagawa Sūen Rōshi and Yasutani Haku\'un Rōshi.
He became friends with Daisetz T.
After the war, Aitken often returned to Japan to study.
Blyth, author of Zen in English Literature , was imprisoned in the same camp, and in this setting Aitken began the first of several apprenticeships.
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About author(s): ROBERT Aitken (1917-2010) was first introduced to Zen in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.
Encouraging Words was nominated for the Tricycle Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Buddhism in America.
Aitken provides guidance on pursuing religious practice in a lay context, "re-casting the Dharma to include women, jobs, and family." He also charts his own quest to develop a set of moral codes in keeping with Buddhism\'s basic precepts and honoring the enormous ethical challenges faced in the twentieth century.
They are arranged according to themes central to all spiritual seekers--attention, emptiness, coming and going, diligence, death and the afterlife, the sacred self, and the moral path. -- Robert Aitken Encouraging Words is a collection of short talks and brief essays that Aitken Rashi has offered his Students at meditation retreats during the past two decades.
The inspiration that guided monks and nuns in ancient times is our own deepest incentive as we establish our practice in a world that desperately needs new forms of kinship and love
