The Japanese Arts and Self-Cultivation () von Robert E. Carter

Foreword by Eliot Deutsch

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1.Self-Cultivation

The Bodymind
Unification of Body and Mind
Enlightenment
Meditation as a Path
The Resultant Transformation
Ki
A Brief Map

2. Aikido—The Way of Peace

The Beginnings
Aikido: One and Not One
Aikido and Budo
A Spiritual Way
Aikido and Ethics 
The Value and Worth of the Other
Aikido and Sports 
Yagyu
Letting Go of the Ego

3. Landscape Gardening as Interconnectedness

Prelude
The Shinto Influence
The Buddhist Influence
Zen-Inspired Gardens
Masuno’s Gardens
I and Thou
The Ethics of Gardens

4. The Way of Tea (Chado)—To Live without Contrivance

Background to the Way of Tea
Wabi
Zen and Pure Land
From Sen no Rikyu to Sen Genshitsu XV
Furyu
The Lineage
Beyond Language

5. The Way of Flowers (Ikebana)—Eternity

Is in the Moment
Introduction
Zen and Ikebana
Ikenobo
Shinto and Ikebana
The Koan of Living by Dying and Dying by Living
Reflections of a Pioneer
The Principle of Three
A Culture of Flowers

6. The Way of Pottery—Beauty Is in the Abdomen

Introduction
Non-Dualistic Awareness
Hamada: Teacher and Collector
. . . and Ethics?
Summary

Conclusion

Ethics and Self-Transformation
The Train to Takayama
Attitudes Revisited