Hakuin Ekaku
Song in Praise of Zazen (Zazen wasan)
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Song in Praise of Zazen (Zazen wasan)
白隠禅師坐禅和讃 (Hakuin Zenji zazen wasan)
It begins “all beings are buddha from the beginning, like water and ice” and ends “this very place is the lotus land, this very body is the buddha”. It sums up Hakuin's doctrine in some forty lines and is the text recited daily in Rinzai temples in Japan and in many Western Zen centres.
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Authorship note
A hymn in Japanese in seven-and-five-syllable verse; its date of composition is not recorded.
Editions and translations
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English
Hakuin Ekaku
Hakuin's Song of Zazen: Yamada Mumon Roshi on Zen Practice
The Conscious LibraryHakuin's Song of Zazen: Yamada Mumon Roshi on Zen Practice
Shambhala, 2024
Translation: Norman Waddell
ISBN 9781645471813
Comentario de Yamada Mumon.
日本語
Hakuin Ekaku
Kohikiuta; Zazen wasan; Chobokure hoka
The Conscious LibraryKohikiuta; Zazen wasan; Chobokure hoka
Zen Bunka Kenkyūsho (Hakuin Zenji hōgo zenshū), 2002
ISBN 9784881821435
Ed. Yoshizawa Katsuhiro; reúne el himno y las canciones populares.
Other works by Hakuin Ekaku
- The Embossed Tea Kettle (Orategama) · 1749
- Idle Talk on a Night Boat (Yasenkanna) · 1757
- Wild Ivy (Itsumadegusa) · 1766
- The Sound of One Hand (Sekishu onjō) · 1753
- Introductory Talks on the Record of Sokkō (Sokkōroku kaien-fusetsu) · 1743
- Poison Blossoms from a Thicket of Thorn (Keisō dokuzui) · 1758
- Words from the Land of Kaian (Kaiankokugo) · 1750
- Poison Words on the Heart Sūtra (Dokugo shingyō)
- An Icchantika's Notes on the Poems of Hanshan · 1746
- Treasure Left to the Cold Forest (Kanrin ihō)
- Reflections Left by the Precious Mirror (Hōkan ishō)
- Spear Flower (Yabukōji) · 1753
- Snake Strawberries (Hebiichigo) · 1754
- Thistle (Oniazami) · 1751
- Goosegrass (Yaemugura) · 1759
- Sashimogusa
- Miraculous Tales of the Ten-Phrase Kannon Sūtra
- Kana Sermons on Causes and Conditions
- Kana Goosegrass (Kanamugura)
- Tales of Spurring On for Beginners
- Record of the Filial Piety of Takatsuka's Fourth Daughter
- The Tale of Heishirō of Ihara and Other Tales
- Record of the Precious Mirror Cave
- Grinding songs, lullabies, weeding songs and riddles
- Letters
- Rōhatsu Exhortations
- Secret Notes on the Blue Cliff Record · 1916
- Painting and calligraphy · 1719
- Collected works · 1934
- Hakuin on Kensho (Albert Low) · 2006
Sources
- Yoshizawa Katsuhiro 芳澤勝弘 (ed. y anot.). Hakuin Zenji hōgo zenshū 白隠禅師法語全集. Kioto: Zen Bunka Kenkyūsho, 1999–2003, 14 vols. e índice. ISBN del primer volumen 4881821318.
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