Zen Diary

Paul Wienpahl

At the age of forty-three, Paul Wienpahl, a teacher of philosophy at the University of California, concluded that Western philosophic thought had exhausted its potential and seemed to be leading toward the death of values...In search of an alternate form of understanding and of hope, Professor Wienpahl went to Japan, the heart of Zen Buddhism. He began his study under the discipline of a roshi, or Zen master, and soon took the further step of entering a Japanese monastery for the intensive practice of meditation...Zen Diary records the author's experience of Zen as the physical and spiritual training of the whole man. It describe the daily temple routine, the position for meditation, koan work (meditation on paradoxical sentences), and the frequent interviews with the master.

Zen Buddhism

1970

Harper Collins

English