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Reports from the Zen wars : the impossible rigor of a questioning life / Steve Antinoff.

by Antinoff, Steve, author.

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Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, c2016.

Antinoff, Steve.

Spiritual biography.

9781619027312 (paperback)

1619027313 (paperback)

258 pages ; 23 cm

King of whatever universe -- Zen man hidden -- Cut with no razor -- The divine comedy of a tragic Buddha -- Meditation Prometheus falling through the shaft -- Better Hakuins tremble than to want to be a Zen master -- Fire in the lotus -- Between straw fedora and wood clogs -- Never with wisdom.

Four decades ago--aged twenty--the author experienced what he calls a "negative satori," a fundamental and irrefutable realization not of enlightenment, but of himself as a predicament only enlightenment could resolve. This, shaped by the hammer blows of a singular American professor, Richard DeMartino, brought him to Zen, and to Japan. Yet over time, of far greater import than his bungling efforts were the wonderful occupants of the Zen world he encountered: Toyoshima-san, the meditation Prometheus whose superhuman efforts astounded and inspired all while he remained impaled on the cliffs edge; the Thief, chief monastery monk who stole the world from whoever he encountered and whose yawns and the brushing of his teeth shot sparks of Absolute Meaning; Hisamatsu, the great lay Zen Master who at age 16 overheard a doctor tell his mother hed be dead in six months, only to awaken ten years later and become the most delighted man in Japan; Bunko, the monk kind to others but ferocious with himself, whose daily state of Oneness in meditation left him dissatisfied because despite all exertion he could not crush it to pieces and break beyond it.

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