{"product_id":"just-this-is-it-isbn-9781611802283","title":"Just This Is It","description":"\u003cb\u003eTeachings on the practice of things-as-they-are, through commentaries on a legendary Chinese Zen figure.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The joy of “suchness”—the ultimate and true nature inherent in all appearance—shines through the teachings attributed to Dongshan Liangjie (807–869), the legendary founder of the Caodong lineage of Chan Buddhism (the predecessor of Soto Zen). Taigen Dan Leighton looks at the teachings attributed to Dongshan—in his \u003ci\u003eRecorded Sayings \u003c\/i\u003eand in the numerous koans in which he is featured as a character—to reveal the subtlety and depth of the teaching on the nature of reality that Dongshan expresses. Included are an analysis of the well-known teaching poem “Jewel Mirror Samadhi,” and of the understanding of particular and universal expressed in the teaching of the Five Degrees. “The teachings embedded in the stories about Dongshan provide a rich legacy that has been sustained in practice traditions,” says Taigen. “Dongshan’s subtle teachings about engagement with suchness remain vital today for Zen people and are available for all those who wish to find meaning amid the challenges to modern lives.”\"What a delight! Readers conditioned to believe that Zen koans are  mind-bending nonsense puzzles will read here with pleasure lucid and  relevant commentaries.\"—Norman Fischer, author of \u003ci\u003eTraining in Compassion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Leighton  is masterful in weaving together specific approaches evoked through  stories about and sayings by Dongshan to create a powerful and inspiring  religious vision that is useful for students and researchers as well as  practitioners of Zen.\"—Steven Heine, author of \u003ci\u003eDid Dōgen Go to China? What He Wrote and When He Wrote It\u003c\/i\u003eTAIGEN DAN LEIGHTON is a Soto Zen priest and a dharma successor in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, having received transmission in 2000 from Tenshin Reb Anderson. He is the cotranslator and editor of several Zen texts, and he is the author of \u003ci\u003eZen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eFaces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern Expression\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eVisions of Awakening Space and Time: Dogen and the Lotus Sutra\u003c\/i\u003e. Leighton is now Dharma Teacher of the Ancient Dragon Zen Gate temple in Chicago.","brand":"Shambhala","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302785437925,"sku":"NP9781611802283","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781611802283.jpg?v=1767730591","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/just-this-is-it-isbn-9781611802283","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}