Julian Daizan SkinnerBesprekingen

Zen master Julian Daizan Skinner guides the reader through a sequence of meditation techniques that can safely lead even a complete novice through to advanced levels. Based on his own long experience of the Rinzai Zen tradition, as taught by the great seventeenth-century masters, Hakuin and Bankei, Daizan highlights the key points for success and addresses the pitfalls. Structured around a traditional teaching framework called "The two wings of a bird," Daizan clearly lays-out how these methods build and combine to create a transformative and sustaining practice.

There are some good nuggets of information in this volume for practitioners of meditation. However, the organizational structure didn't really work for me and the illustrative anecdotes given throughout are taken from other sources and are used in many other volumes. Overall, it was not a book I would choose to add to my yoga/meditation collection.

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