branching streams flow in the darkness Sekito Kisen (Shitou Xiqian) Shunryu Suzuki
BRANCHING STREAMS FLOW IN THE DARKNESS
ZEN TALKS ON THE SANDOKAI
Edited by Mel Weitsman and Michael Wenger
University of California Press Berkeley Los Angeles London Illustration credits: The frontispiece is a traditional Chinese woodcut of Sekito Kisen. The endpiece shows Suzuki Roshi and his wife, Mitsu (Okusan) Suzuki Sensei, at Tassajara in June 1970, at the wedding of Ed Brown and Meg Gawler; photo by Alan Marlowe. The Chinese version of the Sandokai is from Junjiro Takakusu and Kaigyoku Watanabe, eds., Taisho shinshu daizokyo (Tokyo: Taisho Issaikyo Kankokai, 1924–1932), vol. 51, p. 459. The quotation on page 12 is from Eihei Dogen, “Gyoji” (Continuous practice), from Shobogenzo (Treasury of the true dharma eye), in Kazuaki Tanahashi, ed. and trans., Enlightenment Unfolds: The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Dogen (Boston: Shambhala Press, 1999), pp. 149–150. The poems in the footnote on page 55 are quoted, in slightly modified form, from A. F. Price and Wong Mou-Lam, trans., The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui Neng (Boston: Shambhala Press, 1985), pp. 15, 18. University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Suzuki, Shunryu, 1904–1971. Branching streams flow in the darkness : Zen talks on the Sandokai / Shunryu Suzuki ; edited by Mel Weitsman and Michael Wenger. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references ISBN 0-520-90006-5 1. Shih-t’ou, 700–791. Ts’an t’ung ch’i. 2. Zen Buddhism— Doctrines. I. Weitsman, Mel. II. Wenger, Michael. III. Shih-t’ou, 700–791. Ts’an t’ung ch’i. English. IV. Title. BQ9268.S563S89 1999 294.3'420427—dc21 99-33553 CIP