Bücher von Trevor Leggett

S¿an¿kara is the prime architect of the non-dual Vedänta school of Indian phi- losophy and practice. He is considered by many as India's greatest religious and philosophical genius. This book 'The Complete Commentary by S¿an¿kara on the Yoga Su¿tras' contains the first complete English translation of the pre- viously unknown sub-commentary, or vivarana, by S¿an¿kara on Vyäsa's com- mentary on the Yoga Su¿tras of Patan¿jali.If the vivarana is a genuine sub-commentary by S¿an¿kara, it is of the greatest importance to the study of S¿an¿kara's thought and teaching. Whilst the Yoga school of Patanjali differs from S¿an¿kara's Vedänta on certain philosophical points, S¿an¿kara regards it as authoritative on meditation practice which is central to both schools.Leggett considers the issues surrounding the authenticity of the Vivarana as a work by S¿an¿kara in his Introduction and this is also commented on in the new Foreword by Dr Kengo Harimoto which was written for the e-book published in 2017.This edition also includes a previously unpublished section by Leggett on 'How to use this Book for Yoga Practice' in which he says 'When enthusiasm flags read su¿tras 11.15-17; look around you and see how anxiety, pain and death are rushing towards us like an express train. Yoga is a way to escape them.'Trevor Leggett (1914 - 2000) practiced Adhyatma Yoga for over sixty years and for eighteen years he was a pupil of Hari Prasad Shastri until his death in 1956. He studied Zen and Judo in Japan where he achieved sixth dan from the Kodokan and he was one of Great Britain's leading teachers of Judo. For many years he was head of the BBC's Japanese Service until his retirement in 1970. His books on Yoga and Zen include Encounters in Yoga and Zen, Lotus Lake Dragon Pool, The Chapter of The Self, Jewels from the Indra Net, Realisation of the Supreme Self, Zen and the Ways, Three Ages of Zen and The First and Second Zen Readers.

The well-known Zen Buddhist phrase 'the finger pointing at the moon' refers to the means and the end, and the possibility of mistaking one for the other. Trevor Leggett says, 'the forms are the methods and they are very important as pointing fingers, but if we forget what they are for and they become, so to speak, the goal in their own right, then our progress is liable to stop. And if it stops, it retrogresses.' On the other hand there are those who say 'with considerable pride, "I don't want fingers or methods. I want to see the moon directly, directly . . . to see the moon directly . . . no methods or pointing." But in fact they don't see it! It's easy to say.'With many varied analogies, stories and incidents, Trevor Leggett points to the truth behind words, behind explanations and methods. Indeed, the book itself is like 'a finger pointing at the moon'.

Samurai Zen brings together 100 of the rare riddles which represent the core spiritual discipline of Japan's ancient Samurai tradition.