This edition first published in the United States in 1994 by
Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc. of Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, Japan,
with editorial offices at 364 Innovation Drive, North Clarendon, VT 05759 U.S.A.

This work was originally published by Rider & Company
in 1950, in Essays in Zen Buddhism, second series,
edited by Christmas Humphreys.

Introduction © 1994 Janwillem van de Wetering

ISBN 978-1-4629-0119-7
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Cover design by Joel Friedlander
Illustration: Meditation Posture (detail) by Zenchu Sato

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