Eat sleep sit My year at Japan's most rigorous Zen Temple
Book - 2008
"At the age of thirty, Kaoru Nonomura left his family, his girlfriend, and his job as a Tokyo designer to undertake a year of ascetic training at Eiheiji, one of the most rigorous Zen monasteries in Japan and head temple of the Soto sect of Buddhism. This book is Nonomura's account of that year, and his quietly determined quest to imbue his life with spiritual meaning." "Shocking, moving, insightful, funny, and warm, Eat Sleep Sit is a warts-and-all story of the life of a novice Buddhist monk, grappling not just with the day-to-day mysteries of Buddhist practice-- how to eat, how to sleep, how to sit-- but with fear, exhaustion, hunger, and loneliness"--Book jacket.
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- Published
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Tokyo ; New York :
Kodansha Intl
2008.
- Language
- English
Japanese - Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Description
- Originally published as: Kū neru suwaru. Tokyo : Shinchosha, 1996.
- Physical Description
- 324 pages ; 19 cm
- ISBN
- 9784770030757
- The end is the beginning : Resolve
- Jizo cloister
- Dragon gate
- Main gate
- Temporary quarters
- Lavatory
- Facing the wall
- Buddha bowl
- Evening service
- Evening meal
- Night sitting
- Etiquette is zen : Morning service
- Morning meal
- Cleaning the corridors
- Dignified dress
- Washing the face
- Verses
- Noon
- Stick
- Alone in the freezing dark : Entering the hall
- Monks' hall
- Common quarters
- Wake-up bell
- Bell tower
- Self-reflection
- Food server
- Monks' food
- Shaving the head
- Daikan
- Hunger
- The passage of time : Escape
- Registration ceremony
- First bath
- Beginning intensive training
- Manual labor
- Penance
- Main lecture
- Transfer
- The source of the warmth of light : New job
- Sales
- Distribution of goods
- Guest pavilion
- Inspection
- Washrags
- Ending intensive training
- The color of the peak, the echo in the valley : Attendant to the director
- Conference room
- In attendance
- Morning session
- Incense bearer
- Preparations for winter
- Intensive sitting
- Year-end cleaning
- New year's day
- New arrivals
- Just sit
- Departure survey
- Leaving.