TY - BOOK AU - Skinner, Julian Daizan TI - Practical zen: meditation and beyond SN - 9781848193635 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Singing Dragon KW - Meditation N2 - Zen master Julian Daizan Skinner guides the reader through a sequence of meditation techniques that can safely lead even a complete novice through to advanced levels. Based on his own long experience of the Rinzai Zen tradition, as taught by the great seventeenth-century masters, Hakuin and Bankei, Daizan highlights the key points for success and addresses the pitfalls. Structured around a traditional teaching framework called "The two wings of a bird," Daizan clearly lays-out how these methods build and combine to create a transformative and sustaining practice ER -