The main body of the book consists of two translations: A Tongue-tip Taste of Zen, by Primate Takashina Rosen, who was the head of the whole Soto sect in Japan,… The Tiger’s Cave and Translations of Other Zen Writings Zen is a Japanese approximation to the Sanskrit dhyana, which has in Yoga the technical meaning of stilling and focussing the… The book of 108 pages contains fifty incidents showing applications of Yoga and Zen in life. Half are from the Indian tradition and half from the Japanese. There are tales… Fingers and Moons Stories, parables, and examples have been a favoured way of conveying spiritual insights and truths since time immemorial, and Trevor Leggett was a master at it. He… Collected by the author over many years, these stories from the Yoga and Zen traditions are the flint ana steel that strike a spark that lights up the mind with… “One evidence is that texts like the Gita present us with graded practical experiments. Do these, it says, and you can have direct experience of a God who is not… When the Chinese master Daikaku first came to Japan in 1246, neither he nor his Japanese samurai pupils could speak the other’s language, and there are many instances in old… This is a ground breaking translation of a major work which surfaced only in 1952. It claims to be by S’ankara Bhagavatpada (700AD), India’s greatest philosopher and spiritual teacher. If… The book was first published in 1966, it played a pioneering role in helping to spread awareness of this unique member of the chess family outside its country of origin…. This book presents an ancient Sanskrit text dealing with self-realization, God-realization and yoga, aiming at a radical and permanent change of the individual consciousness, which as it stands is limited… Since its inclusion on the Olympic programme in 1964, judo has become so much part of the international sports programme that it is only too easy to forget that it… The Old Zen Master – Inspirations for Awakening Stories, parables, and examples have been a favoured way of conveying spiritual insights and truths since time immemorial, and Trevor Leggett was… Old Traditions for Present-day Life In 1947 I went round the secondhand bookshops in the Kanda district of Tokyo, which had miraculously survived the bombs, and bought many books on… Contents Part I Warrior Zen. Introduction Selected Koan riddles from translation of Shonan-katto-roku (Record of Koans given at Kamakura) Part II Feudal Zen Introduction Translation of Master Torei’s ‘The Good… Expression of Zen inspiration in everyday activities such as writing or serving tea, and in knightly arts such as fencing, came to be highly regarded in Japanese tradition. In the…A First Zen Reader
A Second Zen Reader
Encounters in Yoga and Zen
Fingers and Moons
Lotus Lake Dragon Pool
Realization of the Supreme Self
Samurai Zen: The Warrior Koans
Sankara on the Yoga Sutras
Shogi: Japanese Chess
The Chapter of the Self
The Dragon Mask
The Old Zen Master
The Spirit of Budo
Three Ages of Zen
Zen and the Ways
Trevor Leggett’s books are concerned with
- Spreading the traditional Upanishadic Yoga of Cosmic Consciousness, based on the author’s training in a traditional Indian line and his translations of original Sanskrit – this Yoga process is centred on meditation
- Zen parallels from his translations of Japanese texts of Zen and Budo (knightly arts)
- Training stories of both traditions for daily life
Book Categories
· SECTION ONE:
- Academic translations of newly discovered texts on spiritual training in Sanskrit and Japanese
These texts shed new light on theory and practice - Sankara on the Yoga Sutras , Samurai Zen:The Warrior Koans
· SECTION TWO:
- Traditional explanations of Yoga and Zen teaching for daily life practice.
Trevor Leggett is carrying on an instruction from his teacher, Hari Prasad Shastri, to spread Truth in universal non-sectarian terms. - A first Zen Reader, A Second Zen Reader, Three Ages of Zen, The Chapter of The Self, Zen and the Ways, Realization of the Supreme Self, Jewels from the Indranet
· SECTION THREE:
- Many little known training stories ancient and modern from both traditions. These stories give vivid instances of actual applications to daily life.
- The Old Zen Master, Encounters in Yoga and Zen, Fingers and Moons, Lotus Lake Dragon Pool, The Spirit of Budo
· SECTION FOUR
- Technical instruction books on Judo and Shogi, Japanese chess. Both Judo and Shogi can be used as ways for inner development.
- Japanese Chess-the game of Shogi, The Dragon Mask, Kata Judo, Championship Judo
Trevor Leggett – A brief CV
Trevor Leggett’s teacher of Yoga and its philosophy was the late Dr. Hari Prasad Shastri, pandit and jnani of India. Dr Shastri was commissioned by his own teacher to spread the ancient Yoga abroad, which he did in China, Japan and lastly for twenty seven years in Britain until his death in 1956. The Yoga is based on the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita but is to be spread on non-sectarian and universal lines. It has a clear-cut philosophy and training method.
Trevor Leggett was his pupil for eighteen years and was one of those entrusted with the continuation of Dr. Shastri’s mission. All Leggett’s books on spiritual subjects are dedicated to his teacher.
Trevor Leggett had lived in India and Japan and knew Sanskrit and Japanese.
From 1946 for 24 years head of the BBC Japanese Service broadcasting in Japanese to Japan twice a day.
He was a translator and author of some thirty books mostly on Eastern and Far Eastern yoga and Zen, with some cross-cultural studies. Three of them in Japanese. He also held the rank of 6th Dan in Judo from Kodokan, Tokyo and 5th Dan in Shogi, Japanese chess.
In 1984 he was awarded the Third Degree of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, by the Emperor of Japan, in recognition of his services to cross-cultural relations between East and West, through broadcasting, translations and other books, and through active introduction of aspects of Japanese culture to the West. There are eight degrees of this Order, from the First down, and this is the Third Grade, which is in practice the highest a private individual can get.
In 1987 he was awarded the All-Japan Buddhist Association Literary Award for Translations of Japanese.
The sleeve which is carrying nothing is light –
The evening cool!
Hakuin
