Zen Buddhism category: 725 books
The Ceasing of Notions
An Early Zen Text from the Dunhuang Caves with Selected Comments
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Among the writings from the Dunhuang Caves, discovered in the mid-twentieth Century, are the Zen equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls--ancient texts unknown for centuries. The Ceasing of Notions is one such text. It takes a unique form: a dialogue between two imaginary figures, a master and his disciple,...
by Thich Nhat Hanh
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
A treasury of writings and teachings from the beloved Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh.
Since Thich Nhat Hanh’s exile from his native Vietnam in 1966, this Zen Buddhist monk has gone on to become one of the most influential and beloved spiritual masters of our age. The seeming simplicity of his...
The Method of No-Method
The Chan Practice of Silent Illumination
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Here is a spiritual practice uncomplicated enough for anyone to learn, yet rich enough to be worked with for a lifetime. The traditional Chan (Chinese Zen) practice called Silent Illumination begins with nothing more than putting aside all thoughts except the awareness of oneself "just sitting."...
Being Upright
Zen Meditation and Bodhisattva Precepts
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Being Upright takes us beyond the conventional interpretation of ethical precepts to the ultimate meaning that informs them. Reb Anderson first introduces us to the fundamental ideas of Zen Buddhist practice. Who was Shakyamuni Buddha and what was his central teaching? What does it mean to be a bodhisattva...
One Buddha is Not Enough
A Story of Collective Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2006
This is the ebook version of One Buddha Is Not Enough. How do we learn to believe in ourselves and not just rely on our spiritual teachers? Based on a retreat that Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh organized but then couldn't attend, One Buddha Is Not Enough is a book on how to become your own teacher and...
The Seeds of Love
Growing Mindful Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Using the garden as a metaphor, The Seeds of Love offers a process for creating mindfulness.
From a Buddhist perspective, everything affects our consciousness and enters metaphorically as a seed. This occurs through the development of the practice of mindfulness, and using its tools to maintain...
Zen's Chinese Heritage
The Masters and Their Teachings
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Zen's Chinese Heritage traces twenty-five generations of inlightened Buddhist teachers, supplementing their core teachings with history, biography, and poetry. The result is an intimate and profound human portrait of the enlightened Zen ancients, and an unprecedented look into the depths of the rich...
Just Grab the Dust Rag
Confessions of a Deluded Zen Student Who Never Learned A Thing
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Just Grab The Dust Rag (Confession of a Deluded Zen Student Who Never Learned A Thing) is a personal journey through almost forty years of Zen practice in New York with a Japanese Zen Master. Filled with often humorous personal encounters with not only Zen Masters, but other students, friends and...
Faith in Mind
A Commentary on Seng Ts'an's Classic
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
The Supreme Way is not difficult
If only you do not pick and choose.
Neither love nor hate,
And you will clearly understand.
Be off by a hair,
And you are as far from it as heaven and earth.
These vivid lines begin one of the most beloved and commented upon of all Zen texts, the Hsin Hsin Ming...
Shattering the Great Doubt
The Chan Practice of Huatou
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Huatou is a skillful method for breaking through the prison of mental habits into the spacious mind of enlightenment. The huatou is a confounding question much like a Zen koan. Typical ones are "What is wu [nothingness]?" or "What was my original face before birth-and-death?" But...
The Essence of Zen
The Teachings of Sekkei Harada
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
The Essence of Zen is an expert's guided tour of the ins and outs of the tradition's approach to meditation, enlightenment, and the oneness of all things. To read it is to enter into one of modern Japanese Zen's most subtle and sophisticated minds.
Sekkei Harada skillfully pushes us to drop...
Making a Change for Good
A Guide to Compassionate Self-Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
According to Zen teacher Cheri Huber, we are conditioned to think that if we were only a little better in some way, we would be happy: "Life isn't the way it should be and it's my fault!" But, Huber says, no amount of self-punishment will ever make us happy or bring us control over life’s...
At Home in the Muddy Water
A Guide to Finding Peace Within Everyday Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
May we exist like a lotus, / At home in the muddy water. / Thus we bow to life as it is.
This verse is an important reminder, says Ezra Bayda, of what the spiritual life is truly about: the willingness to open ourselves to whatever life presents—no matter how messy or complicated. And through...
Invoking Reality
Moral and Ethical Teachings of Zen
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
There is a common misconception that to practice Zen is to practice meditation and nothing else. In truth, traditionally, the practice of meditation goes hand-in-hand with moral conduct. In Invoking Reality, John Daido Loori, one of the leading Zen teachers in America today, presents and explains...