Mushotoku Mind: The Heart of the Heart Sutra

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A book-length kusen-commentary on the Hannya Shingyō (Heart Sutra), assembled by Philippe Reiryū Coupey from Deshimaru's oral teachings at the Paris dōjō. The volume threads Deshimaru's signature term — mushotoku, the mind without gaining idea — through the sutra's negation formulas ("no eye, no ear, no nose…"), reading the Heart Sutra not as a metaphysical thesis but as the description of the consciousness that arises in shikantaza.

tr. Edited by Philippe Reiryū Coupey, Hohm Press, 2012

license: fair_use

Attribution

• Attributed To
  Taisen Deshimaru

Lineage: Sōtō

By Taisen Deshimaru

• Just Sitproverb
• The Cosmos in the Postureproverb
• Automatic Thinkingproverb
• Observe Your Own Mindproverb
• Mushotoku: Without Seeking Gainsaying

Sources

• contentKosen Sangha — Maître Kosen / Kōsen Thibaut presentation

  Kosen Sangha International

  Kosen Sangha — recommended reading on the Heart Sutra and Deshimaru's commentary

  Mushotoku Mind is Deshimaru's commentary on the Hannya Shingyō, edited by Reiryū Coupey, in which the master reads the sutra's negations as a description of the mind of zazen.