The wholehearted way
Subtitle: a translation of Eihei Dōgen's Bendōwa with commentary
By: by Kōshō Uchiyama Roshi ; translations by Shohaku Okumura and Taigen Dan Leighton ; introduction by Shohaku Okumura.
Contributors: Okumura, Shohaku, 1948-; Leighton, Taigen Daniel.; Dōgen, 1200-1253.
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Dōgen, 1200-1253; Sōtōshū -- Doctrines
Description: Zen Master Dogen's Bendowa is one of the primary texts on Zen practice. Transcending any particular school of Buddhism or religious belief, Dogen's profound and poetic writings are respected as a pinnacle of world spiritual literature.

Bendowa, or "A Talk on the Wholehearted Practice of the Way," was written in 1231 and expresses Dogen's teaching of the essential meaning of zazen (seated meditation) and its actual practice. Included in this edition is an introduction by Reverend Shohaku Okumura, Director of the North American Soto School in Los Angeles.