Zen for Americans (Unabridged‪)‬

Zen for Americans. Sermons of a Buddhist abbot by Soyen Shaku. Translated by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. Narrated by Denis Daly. 

In a world riddled with irreconcilable conflict among doctrinaire religions, Soyen Shaku's crisp and incisive commentaries on Buddhism come across as particularly engaging. Shaku's eminently reasonable worldview and his skillful exposition of a truly universal definition of divinity and its inevitable necessity are both compelling and difficult to refute. In particular, this collection of discourses probes deeply and revealingly into the fundamental questions that occupy the minds of believers and unbelievers alike: why men cultivate religion in the first place and what the secret of its persistent vitality is. 

Contents:


Translator's Preface 
The Sutra of Forty-Two Chapters 
The God-Conception 
Assertions and Denials 
Immortality 
Buddhist Faith 
Buddhist Ethics 
What Is Buddhism? 
The Middle Way 
The Wheel of the Good Law 
The Phenomenal and the Supra-Phenomenal 
Reply to a Christian Critic 
Ignorance and Enlightenment 
Spiritual Enlightenment 
Practice of Dhyana 
Kwannon Bosatz 
Buddhism and Oriental Culture 
The Story of Deer Park 
The Story of the Gem-Hunting 
The Sacrifice for a Stanza 
Buddhist View of War 
At the Battle of Nan-Shan Hill 
A Memorial Address for Those Who Died in the Russo-Japanese War