The Voice of the Valley: Zen Teachings

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An English-language compilation of Deshimaru's kusen prepared by his American disciple Philippe Reiryū Coupey, drawing on the dōjō transcripts of the late 1970s. The volume's title alludes to Dōgen's keisei sanshoku ("valley sounds, mountain colours") and frames Deshimaru's instruction as a contemporary continuation of the Sōtō tradition's attention to ordinary perception. Read alongside Sit and Mushotoku Mind, it is the principal English access point to his kusen.

tr. Edited by Philippe Reiryū Coupey, Bobbs-Merrill, 1979; reprinted Hohm Press

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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

• contentZen Deshimaru - The history of Zen, from the Buddha to the modern world

  Zen Deshimaru Buddhist Association

  AZI bibliography — English-language compilations of Deshimaru's kusen

  The Voice of the Valley collects Deshimaru's kusen as transcribed and edited by his disciple Philippe Reiryū Coupey at the Paris dōjō.