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File Size: 1656 KB
Print Length: 232 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 161429397X
Publisher: Wisdom Publications (May 8, 2018)
Publication Date: May 8, 2018
Sold by: Simon & Schuster Digital Sales Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B078MC4TKT
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Bow First is a wonderful book about a young woman's Zen journey in Japan, over a six year period. Gesshin Greenwood writes beautifully, frankly, and openly about her experiences there. The book is wild and wide ranging, from her experiences in the nunnery where she spent 3 years, to feminism and what it was like to be unable to speak or understand Japanese when virtually all interaction was in that language.It is the deeply personal nature of her narrative that truly moved me. In many ways she was ensnared in conflicts: between her commitment to feminism and her sense that it and Buddha Dharma were incompatible; her aching loneliness in the nunnery and her resistance to leaving it, even when she seemed close to a breakdown; her doubts about celibacy and her sense that being celibate made pursuing the Great Matter of life and death, much easier.Bow First is such an intimate book, and its intimacy is a real tribute to Gesshin Claire Greenwood's ability and willingness to share herself with her readers so deeply. As soon as I finished it, I wanted to read the book all over again. I urge anyone interested in Zen Buddhism (or humor!) to buy this and immerse themselves in Gesshin's wonderful insights and writing. Five stars well and truly earned!
The second sentence of Gesshin Claire Greenwood's amazing book, following a quotation from Zen master Dogen (the founder of Soto Zen who haunts each chapter), is from Kassia, a Byzantine nun and composer who states, "I hate silence when it is time to speak." And Greenwood, like Kassia, has absolutely no compunction telling it like it is when the moment demands.In this way, Greenwood uses her part-memoir, part-Zen manual to enliven a rich lineage of frank, at times ribald, truth-telling that stretches a 2500 years to the historical Buddha right up to the present (hello, Monica Lewinsky and "South Park"). As Brad Warner states in his foreword, this isn't the sort of thing you'll likely read in that glossy mindfulness magazine you grabbed while waiting in checkout aisle at Whole Foods. (According to Wikipedia, Kassia also said, "I hate the rich man moaning as if he were poor." But I digress.)Greenwood's take on Zen practice is full-throated, insightful, and bracing; it is indeed her time to speak. Her tale is in many ways an outlier: raised by Buddhist hippies in San Francisco, she heads west to the East, first hitting India and then arriving in Japan for two extended stints in Zen monasteries. Few of her readers will identify with the rigors of, say, day after day spent motionless in a frigid meditation hall or practicing seemingly impenetrable rituals that demand a body and language you simply don't possess. (At least I know I can't do so.)But her relentless questioning, her commitment to a life of meaning, and her inability to settle on simple reassurance make for fascinating reading. As her title suggests, Greenwood embodies Zen Buddhist practice with a rare clarity and purpose. And the questions do arrive, at times in torrents, urgent, essential questions that drive all spiritual engagement.Clearly allergic to pious pedantry, Greenwood has written a book that can teach us just how important our lives can be if we approach them with her self-effacing humor, blunt honesty, and awareness. If that sounds like an appealing version of Buddhism, read this book.
Have you ever wondered if you have what it takes to be a monk or a nun? What about being a zen monk? What about being a zen monk in Japan? It's hard to imagine someone writing a memoir of that experience as a "romp", but "Bow First" is a romp, hilarious and light hearted but with a very serious core. Early on, Gesshin defines the Buddhist concept of "skilful means" as how parents get kids to eat their kale by hiding the kale in macaroni and cheese. The book is filled with serious, or even very serious, anecdotes and Buddhist philosophy, in a carrier of tasty anecdotes. One part Tina Fey's "Bossy Pants", one part classic going out into the world to find oneself novel.
If I were scoring the background of my own Zen journey, it would be the wordless whistling of The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, no telling which was which, all played out on the gritty grounds of greed, hate and delusion. Dripping with the great matter, a true hero’s trekking and in the end finding the hidden treasure. I did not expect that from Gesshin and I was not disappointed. But, I did wonder how I might score it once I’d read it.Would it be Jesse Colin Young exhorting “Come on people now … Smile on your brother … Everybody get together … try to love one another right now…†or Judy Collins exhaling “Send in the Clowns†or Peggy Lee unsurprising anyone with “Is That All There Isâ€?Turns out, it would be Gesshin prancing down the runway of a haute couture hat show, to Blondie’s “Heart of Glassâ€. You listen to that, then come back.Got it? Now breathe deep with me, say once, twice, again… Okay?Gesshin absolutely reveals the state of Temple Zen — and of its uniquely Western style of mimicry — and just how much she’s okay with that. Now, if one of the principle objectives of Zen practice is to expose and to live by one’s authentic self, then Gesshin delivers. She doesn’t leave one — not this one at least — with any burning desire to impersonate her, or to re-enact her journey or to believe anything she says therein — which is a koan in and of itself leaving one only the question “If not that then …?â€My appreciation for this work increases the farther away from it I go, but most especially for Gesshin’s candor. She knows it is all an act and she’s willing to show us the actor both on and off the stage.
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