Don't Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen MasterThe Shōbōgenzō (The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye) is a revered eight-hundred-year-old Zen Buddhism classic written by the Japanese monk Eihei Dōgen. Despite the timeless wisdom of his teachings, many consider the book difficult to understand and daunting to read. In Don’t Be a Jerk, Zen priest and bestselling author Brad Warner, through accessible paraphrasing and incisive commentary, applies Dōgen’s teachings to modern times. While entertaining and sometimes irreverent, Warner is also an astute scholar who sees in Dōgen very modern psychological concepts, as well as insights on such topics as feminism and reincarnation. Warner even shows that Dōgen offered a “Middle Way” in the currently raging debate between science and religion. For curious readers worried that Dōgen’s teachings are too philosophically opaque, Don’t Be a Jerk is hilarious, understandable, and wise. |
Contents
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3 Dogen Explains the Heart Sutra The Heart of Great Perfect Wisdom Sutra | 30 |
There Is No Self | 43 |
5 You Are Not Yourself The Realized Universe | 50 |
6 Did Dogen Teach Reincarnation and Does It Even Matter If He Did? | 60 |
7 Wont Get Fooled Again One Bright Pearl | 71 |
8 You Cant Say I Miss You in Japanese | 79 |
16 Dont Be a Jerk Not Doing Wrong | 149 |
17 Psychedelic Dogen BeingTime | 163 |
18 The Mystical Power of the Clothes You Wear Transmission of the Robe | 176 |
19 The Beer and Doritos Sutra The Sutra of Mountains and Waters | 186 |
20 The Buddhist Hall of Fame The Buddhist Patriarchs | 201 |
21 Buddhist Paperwork The Certificate of Succession | 212 |
22 Twirly Flowers Twirl Twirly Flowers The Flower of Dharma Turns the Flower of Dharma | 225 |
23 Stop Trying to Grab My Mind The Mind Cannot Be Grasped | 239 |
9 A List of Rules Rules for the Hall of the Accumulated Cloud | 87 |
10 Youre Already Enlightened Except Youre Not Mind Here and Now Is Buddha | 94 |
The Twisted History of Shobogenzo | 101 |
12 Zen and the Art of Wiping Your Butt Washing | 106 |
13 Three Encounters with Dogen | 114 |
14 Was Dogen the First Buddhist Feminist? Prostrating to That Which Has Attained the Marrow | 123 |
15 Hearing Weird Stuff Late at Night River Voices and Mountain Forms | 137 |
24 Monkeys and Mirrors and Stones The Eternal Mirror | 256 |
25 Chanting Sutras Reading or Chanting Sutras | 277 |
26 Dogens Zen in the TwentyFirst Century | 293 |
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About the Author | 305 |
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