Zen Buddhism category: 725 books

Byung-Chul Han busca hacer explícita la filosofía que está implícita en el budismo Zen, y lo hace a través de la comparación con los filósofos más destacados de la filosofía occidental. Byung-Chul Han nos propone en este ensayo sobre el budismo zen que es posible reflexionar de modo...

Abandon your treasured delusions and hit the road with one of the most important Zen masters of twentieth-century Japan. Eschewing the entrapments of vanity, power, and money, "Homeless" Kodo Sawaki Roshi refused to accept a permanent position as a temple abbot, despite repeated offers....

From the editors of Zen Poems of China and Japan comes the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind to appear in English.   This collaboration between a Japanese scholar and an American poet has rendered translations both precise and sublime, and their selections, which span fifteen...

Perennially popular topics Zen and romance come together in this unique guide that reveals how to fall in love and stay that way. We are meant to be in love. Love energizes our daily existence, heals the body and mind and makes every moment precious. So why aren't we in love all the time? In...

At once profound, spiritual, and witty, Master of the Three Ways is a remarkable work about human nature, the essence of life, and how to live simply and with awareness. In three hundred and fifty-seven verses, the author, Hung Ying-ming—a seventeenth-century Chinese sage—explores good and evil,...

Thich Nhat HanhUnderstanding the Life and Teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh: The Zen Buddhist Monk Who Traveled the World in Exile While Spreading His Message of Love, Peace, and UnderstandingBy Dr. Ruth CarrThich Nhat Hanh was born in the city of Qu'ng Ngai, Vietnam in 1926 as...

A book of Zen teachings is a conundrum because Zen is beyond words. Zen cannot be understood by the mind, because it is about becoming aware of the mind itself. Zen wisdom is not a clever theory, it is medicine. We suffer from the illness of the illusion of separateness and Zen is the cure.

Drawn from the archives of major Zen centers in America and interviews with some of the most seminal figures of American Zen, including Philip Kapleau, Bernie Glassman, Gary Snyder, and Walter Nowick, One Bird, One Stone presents the notable encounters between teachers and students, the moments of...

Unleash the song of your soul with Zen Guitar, a contemplative handbook that draws on ancient Eastern wisdom and applies it to music and performance. Each of us carries a song inside us, the song that makes us human. Zen Guitar provides the key to unlocking this song—a series of life lessons...

An excellent, practical introduction to Zen meditation. Written in a warm and easily accessible style, this book appeals to anyone with an interest in meditation, Zen, or, as is often the case today, a combination of the two. The book emphasizes the importance of receiving good instruction and of...

Kensho is the transformative glimpse of the true nature of all things. It is an experience so crucial in Zen practice that it is sometimes compared to finding an inexhaustible treasure because it reveals the potential that exists in each moment for pure awareness free from the projections of the ego....

A Zen poem is nothing other than an expression of the enlightened mind, a handful of simple words that disappear beneath the moment of insight to which it bears witness. Poetry has been an essential aid to Zen Buddhist practice from the dawn of Zen—and Zen has also had a profound influence on the...

Buddhism: Beginner Guide To The Path Of Buddhism is the beginning teachings of what it means to be a Buddhist and what a Buddhist believes and practices. By having a fundamental understanding of the Buddhism Daily Practice, we can understand what its practice means to us and how we live our lives....

Samurai Zen brings together 100 of the rare riddles which represent the core spiritual discipline of Japan's ancient Samurai tradition. Dating from thirteenth-century records of Japan's Kamakura temples, and traditionally guarded with a reverent secrecy, they reflect the earliest manifestation of...