Today’s Recommendation: Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo by Kosho Uchiyama Roshi

Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
by Kosho Uchiyama Roshi
★★★★★

Abandon your treasured delusions and hit the road with one of the most important Zen masters of twentieth-century Japan.

Eschewing the entrapments of vanity, power, and money, "Homeless" Kodo Sawaki Roshi refused to accept a permanent position as a temple abbot, despite repeated offers. Instead, he lived a traveling, "homeless" life, going from temple to temple, student to student, teaching and instructing and never allowing himself to stray from his chosen path. He is responsible for making Soto Zen available to the common people outside of monasteries.

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