In Infinite Circle, one of America's most distinctive Zen teachers takes a back-to-basics approach to Zen. Glassman illuminates three key teachings of Zen Buddhism, offering line-by-line commentary in clear, direct language: 1. The Heart Sutra: the Buddha's essential discourse on emptiness, a central sutra of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition. 2. "The Identity of Relative and Absolute": an eighth-century poem by Shih-t'ou His-ch'ien, a key text of the Soto Zen school. 3. The Zen precepts: the rules of conduct for laypeople and monks. His commentaries are based on workshops he gave as Abbot of the Zen Community of New York, and they contain within them the principles that became the foundation for the Greyston Mandala of community development organizations and the Zen Peacemaker Order. CONTENTS Introduction The Heart of the Perfection of Great Wisdom Sutra 1 No Yellow Brick Road 2 Being-Doing 3 Emptiness 4 Letting Go 5 No Suffering 6 Transmuting the Three Poisons 7 Letting Go of Letting Go The Identity of Relative and Absolute 8 Most Intimate 9 Subtle Source, Branching Streams 10 Intermingle Even as They Shine Alone 11 Two Arrows That Meet in Midair The Bodhisattva Precepts 12 The Bodhisattva Precepts: Literal, Subjective, and Intrinsic Perspectives 13 The Three Treasures and the Three Pure Precepts 14 Nonkilling Epilogue The Rule of the Zen Peacemaker Order Of Itself, the Fruit Is Born
