Mud and Water

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“This sparkling translation fully captures Bassui's unique vigor and insight and throws new light on an often neglected period of Zen's history.”—Peter Haskel, author of Bankei Zen

MUD AND WATER

The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui

Arthur Braverman Bassui Tokusho

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The fourteenth-century Zen master Bassui was recognized as one of the most important Zen teachers of his time. Accessible and eloquent, these teachings cut to the heart of the great matter of Zen, pointing directly to the importance of seeing our own original nature and recognizing it as Buddhahood itself. Bassui is taking familiar concepts in Buddhism and recasting them in an essential Zen light.

Though he lived centuries ago in a culture vastly different from our own, Zen Master Bassui speaks with a voice that spans time and space to address our own modern challenges—in our lives and spiritual practice.

Like the revered Master Dogen several generations before him, Bassui was dissatisfied with what passed for Zen training, and taught a radically reenergized form of Zen, emphasizing deep and direct penetration into one’s own true nature. And also like Dogen, Bassui uses powerful and often poetic language to take familiar Buddhist concepts recast them in a radically non-dual Zen light, making ancient doctrines vividly relevant.

This edition of Mud and Water contains several teachings never before translated.

book information
  • Paperback
  • 192 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 inches
  • $16.95
  • ISBN 9780861713202
  • ebook
  • 192 pages
  • $9.99
  • ISBN 9780861717231
about the author
Mud and Water

Arthur Braverman has lived in Tokyo and in Kyoto, where he studied Zen at Antaiji Temple. He is the author of A Still Quiet Road as well as a translator of Buddhist texts. He lives in Ojiai, California, where he teaches at the Oak Grove School of the Krishnamurti Foundation of America.

Mud and Water

The fourteenth-century Zen master Bassui was recognized as one of the most important Zen teachers of his time. Accessible and eloquent, his teachings cut to the heart of the great matter of Zen, pointing directly to the importance of seeing our own original nature and recognizing it as Buddhahood itself. Bassui takes familiar concepts in Buddhism and recasting them in an essential Zen light.

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