Discovering the True Self: Kodo Sawaki's Art of Zen Meditation

"You can't see your true Self. [But] you can become it. Becoming your true Self is zazen."



As an orphan in the slums of Tsu City, Japan, Kodo Sawaki had to fight his way to adulthood, and became one of the most respected Zen masters of the twentieth century. He had a great understanding of Dogen Zenji's teaching and he knew how to express Dogen's philosophy. Sawaki's primary mission was to bring all people to an awareness of the Self, which he believed came through Zen meditation.



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