What is Zen?
Prof. Masunaga Reiho answered: "Zen is the practice that helps every human being to penetrate to his true self through cross leg sitting (Zazen), and to vitalize this self in daily life".
Zen translations of Dogen, Keizan and Prof. Masunaga Reiho, "The Direct wat to the True self and to full function in Daily life", 280 pages, in Hebrew, published for the first time in Israel, in June 2006, in the Blue Cliff publishing house.
New in Zenki! My Gist (Zen gist of Zen teacher Danny Waxman) - in Spanish !
Also New in Zenki: New article in English (written by Prof. Masunaga) from the outline of Zen booklet
to get an copy of each of this papers, or buy a copy
of "Zen - Questions and Answers", or of "The Direct wat to the True self
and to full function in Daily life";
please send an E-mail to sotozen01@hotmail.com
What's New? (More about publishing Prof Masunaga Reiho books in Israel in Hebrew - take a look)
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Prof.
Masunaga 
is Dharama heir and a member of the Soto Zen
lineage in Japan that was established by Dogen Zenji. The
site headlines are named after Two books: "Zen in daily life" and "The Soto approach to
Zen", that Prof. Masunaga wrote (in English).
Danny Waxman 
is a layman disciple of
Prof. Masunaga, and stayed in Japan for 13 years between
the years 1958-1983, learning Zen and Martial Arts.
My name is Ofer. I am a Zen (and martial-art) disciple of Mr. Dan Waxman, and function as the builder and the editor of the site. I try to help my teacher Danny Waxman in his efforts to fulfill Prof. Masunaga Goals.
Which are:
- To teach Zazen as the direct way to penetrate True self and reach Satori (Enlightenment) within daily life.
- To enhance full functioning (Zenki) in daily life, vitalize our true self, combining creativity and practical humanism together as oneness.
- To help bring together the deep wisdom of the east and the achievements of science and culture of the west.
- To create a more compassionate humanistic society.
For achieving these goals, Prof. Masunaga welcomed Western students that wanted to learn and practice Zazen, lectured about Zen and wrote three books about Zen in English, aimed for the western readers.
The names of those books are:
- Zen in Daily life.
- Zen beyond Zen.
- Soto Approach to Zen.
All these books are out of print for many years. Prof. Masunaga translated the most important and deep chapters of the masterwork Shobogenzo, including Fukanzazengi, Bendowa, GenjoKoan, Uji, Shoji, Zenki, and more.
We use this opportunity to bring portions of his books including his translations of the Shobogenzo in this site, for the benefits of all interested people. Our hope is that this act will open a possibility to re-publish these books, and make them once more available for the general public.
Prof. Masunaga wrote a very interesting and deep book concerning Dogen ideas about time (UJI). We also hope that it will be possible to translate this book and maybe other books of Prof. Masunaga, from Japanese to English and publish them.
We welcome everyone who wishes to Download (or use the print option) parts of this site - for personal use only! Any one who wish to make a public or commercial use of this texts and site or any part of it, must receive a written permission from the owners of the copyrights.
The site will always be under construction!
You are invited to contact us, and if you have questions concerning practicing Zen and/or Martial Arts, please ask, and Danny Waxman will try his best to answer them. Danny is a Zen teacher and the Senior Sensei of this site. As a Martial-Art teacher he holds 6dan from the Kodokan Judo Institute, and 13dan in Ninjutsu (Dr. Masakai Hatsumi), from Japan. There are times when Danny asks me to answer on his behalf. Every answer will have our initials for sake of clearness.
We are glad to note that Danny Waxman's book: 'Zen - Questions and Answers' was published (in Hebrew) by Gal Publishing House and is distributed to all major book stores in Israel.
Ofer's book "Tai chi and other treasures" was published (in Hebrew). For more information please go to What's New?
Currently, Zen training (Zazen oriented sessions) are held Every week
on Sunday's evening 7Pm-9Pm in Ramat-Gan. The next meetings are on 06/05/2007, 13/05/2007, 20/05/2007 and so on without fail;
Martial Arts training that include Zazen is held every Friday at 8.45Am-12Am in Mercaz Meirav. For more details, please go to the Zen in Israel Page.
Note of appreciation: Thank you to E.B and Shaul Mani, Inbal, Franki, Safi and Hadas Michal and Mor and other friends to the way, for their kind help to maintain our Zen projects.
Special thanks to all the people that are beyond the many sites of the Web, that offer freely and generously their knowledge, tools, and good advises that assisted me in building this site (here is a list of their links).
Please have a very good day!
Ofer. C
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