- Paperback: 372 pages
- Publisher: Anchor Books; Reprint edition (Mar 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385234139
- ISBN-13: 978-0385234139
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.2 x 2.5 cm
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Drawing on the teachings of Eastern and Western religions, with insights gleaned from his own Zen experince, world-renowned Zen-Buddhist teacher Kapleau clearly and concisely explains the often avoided subject of death and dying as it relates to each of us.
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AN AMERICAN BUDDHIST TEACHER LOOKS AS LIFE & DEATH ISSUES, 29 July 2011
By Steven H. Propp - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Wheel of Life and Death: A Practical and Spritual Guide (Paperback)
Philip Kapleau (1912-2004) was a teacher of Zen Buddhism in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition, a blending of Japanese Sôtô and Rinzai schools. In 1966 he became the first American to found and teach at a Zen training center (the Rochester Zen Center). He has also written The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment, The Zen of Living and Dying: A Practical and Spiritual Guide, Straight to the Heart of Zen: Eleven Classic Koans and Their Innner Meanings, To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist Case for Becoming Vegetarian, etc.
He wrote in the Introduction to this 1989 book, "Why yet another book of death and dying? And how does this one differ from the rest? ... most of them nonetheless lack a spiritual dimension---a religious attitude toward life and death---and practical guidance in what may be called the art and religion of dying... The basic aim of this volume can be summed up in these words: to help the reader learn to live fully with life at every moment and die serenely with death. Such an affirmative rapport with life and death is possible, however, only if one has discerned that death closes the circle on life just as life prepares the way for death, and that death therefore has a validity and a raison d'etre of its own."
Here are some additional quotations from the book:
"If an individual wants to take his life for purely unselfish reasons---that is, he doesn't want to impose an intolerable financial and emotional burden on his family and friends because of his irreversible illness---certainly the karmic consequences of putting an end to his life would be diminished." (Pg. 129)
"Buddhism is emphatic in its opposition to suicide, chiefly because it holds that only with a human body-mind can one become enlightened..." (Pg. 131)
"Buddhism holds that because death is not the end, suffering does not end thereupon, but continues until the karma that created the suffering has played itself out; thus, it it pointless to kill oneself---or aid another to do so---in order to escape." (Pg. 135)
"Among the Eastern religions, Buddhism and Hinduism both sanction cremation." (Pg. 166)
"Rebirth is NOT the goal. The ultimate 'goal' ... is not rebirth---and with it the inevitable pains and sufferings attendant upon a body---but the unconditioned state of pure consciousness. What the true aspirant seeks is release from the pain and sufferings of numberless lives, from the endless wheel of rebirth, both for himself and for all beings." (Pg. 264)
"Reincarnation implies an independent, migrating soul substance that embodies itself in a new form. The teaching of rebirth, or the continuity of life, repudiates such a notion... Thus there is no self that is re-born; there is an ongoing continuity of 'again-becoming.'" (Pg. 266-267)
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