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by Bussho Lahn (Author), Tim Burkett (Introduction by)
"This is one of the best books on Zen and Zen practice that I have read in years. Busshō uses a well-known Zen song/poem to elucidate the key features of Zen meditation, practice and life....It brings the famous Zen master's teaching alive while also showing how it is relevant to Zen practice in the 21st century." --Tim Burkett, author of Nothing Holy About It and Zen in the Age of Anxiety
Foreword Book of the Year Finalist (Nonfiction: Religion)Singing and Dancing Are the Voice of the Law introduces us to one of the great works of Zen literature, "The Song of Zazen." Zen teacher Busshō Lahn illuminates Hakuin's enigmatic poem in plain language, unpacking it and applying it to contemporary life. His book offers a wealth of information on the context and content of this eighteenth-century work, clearly evoking its themes of abiding wisdom, meditation, compassionate self-regard, and our own everyday life's potential to express deep spiritual truth.Short stanza by short stanza, this exceptionally readable and deeply engaging book shows how the poem's teachings and invitations are as applicable now as they were when they were first written nearly three centuries ago. Lahn offers readers an intuitive and progressive path of exploration of their spiritual lives, regardless of their faith tradition.
Author Biography
Tim Burkett began studying Zen in 1964 with Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, and was ordained as a Zen priest in 1978 by Dainin Katagiri, author of Returning to Silence and other books. Tim has been the guiding teacher at the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center for the last 19 years. Tim is the author of Nothing Holy About It (Shambhala) and Zen in the Age of Anxiety: Wisdom for Navigating Our Modern Lives (Shambhala, 2018), which was selected as one of the 100 best spiritual books of 2018.
