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Sit: Zen Teachings of Master Taisen Deshimaru

Sit

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A posthumous English-language anthology of Deshimaru's kusen, edited by Philippe Reiryū Coupey at the Paris dōjō from transcripts of zazen sessions held at the AZI in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The book is organised around fundamental Sōtō themes — the posture, breath, the bodhisattva precepts, the relation of zazen to ordinary life — and is widely used as the introductory English text in Deshimaru-line dōjōs.

tr. Edited by Philippe Reiryū Coupey, Hohm Press, 1996

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Lineage: Sōtō

By Taisen Deshimaru

Sources

  • Kosen Sangha International

    Kosen Sangha — recommended reading list for the Deshimaru lineage

    Sit is the standard English-language compilation of Master Deshimaru's kusen, edited by his close disciple Philippe Reiryū Coupey from the AZI Paris-dōjō transcripts.