Zen Buddhism category: 725 books
Riding the Ox Home
Stages on the Path of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
"Maps and guideposts are helpful when we undertake a journey. The ten Ox-Herding Pictures, the accompanying ancient poems, and a modern commentary by John Daido Loori, sketch the spiritual path encountered in Zen training, a path of exhaustive study of the self and the realization of the ultimate...
Being-Time
A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A tour-de-force guide to Zen Master Dogen’s most subtle and sophisticated philosophical premises: that being and time are inseparable.
“Impermanence is time itself, being itself—yet time and being are not at all as we imagine them to be. To really understand and fully embrace this point...
Waking Up to What You Do
A Zen Practice for Meeting Every Situation with Intelligence and Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2006
Life is rising up to meet us at every moment. The question is: Are we there to meet it or not? Diane Rizzetto presents a simple but supremely effective practice for meeting every moment of our lives with mindfulness, using the Zen precepts as tools to develop a keen awareness of the motivations behind...
A Critique of Western Buddhism
Ruins of the Buddhist Real
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
What are we to make of Western Buddhism? Glenn Wallis argues that in aligning their tradition with the contemporary wellness industry, Western Buddhists evade the consequences of Buddhist thought. This book shows that with concepts such as vanishing, nihility, extinction, contingency, and no-self,...
Beyond Mindfulness
Living Life Through Everyday Zen
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2015
Zen Buddhist teachings and writings of the late Ken Jones
What's Wrong with Mindfulness (And What Isn't)
Zen Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Mindfulness seems to be everywhere—but are we sure that's a good thing? Teachers Sallie Jiko Tisdale, Gil Fronsdal, Norman Fischer, and more explain how removing mindfulness from Buddhism may set a dangerous precedent.
Mindfulness is in fashion. Oprah loves it, Google teaches it to employees—it...
by Stewart W. Holmes, Chimyo Horioka
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This book is about emptiness and silence—the mind-expanding emptiness of Zen painting, and the reverberating silence of haiku poetry. Through imaginative participation in the visions of painters and poets, its readers are led to the realization that, in the author's words, "emptiness, silence,...
The Rinzai Zen Way
A Guide to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The first accessible beginner's guide to Rinzai Zen practice.
The recognition of the true nature of oneself and the universe is the aim of Rinzai Zen—but that experience, known as kensho, is really just the beginning of a life of refining that discovery and putting it into practice in...
Realizing Awakened Consciousness
Interviews with Buddhist Teachers and a New Perspective on the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
If, as Buddhism claims, the potential for awakening exists in all human beings, we should be able to map the phenomenon with the same science we apply to other forms of consciousness. A student of cognitive social science and a Zen practitioner for more than forty years, Richard P. Boyle brings his...
by Joanne P. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Zen and the Gospel of Thomas illuminates sacred, mysterious wisdom from two traditions, revealing how these profound teachings apply to our everyday life and spiritual practice.
Imagine that the Buddha asked Jesus to write a text for a Zen audience that would explain his take on the mysteries...
by Eugen Herrigel
Language: French
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie de Eugen Herrigel. Dans ce recueil de notes rassemblées en volume après sa mort par Hermann Tausend puis édité aux Etats-Unis par Alan Watts, Eugen Herrigel livre une description précise et documentée des techniques et pratiques du Bouddhisme Zen...
Zen Berserker
Bekenntnisse eines missratenen Mönchs
Language: German
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Zen in Las Vegas Diese komischen und tiefgründigen, zuweilen schockierenden Essays über das Leben innerhalb und außerhalb des Zen-Klosters fügen sich zu der spirituellen Biografie eines Zen-Mönchs, der eigentlich nie einer sein wollte. Shozan Jack Haubner erzählt über Sex, Kloregeln im Kloster,...
by Myokyo-ni Irmgard Schlögl
Language: German
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: July 5, 2016
«Da in jedem Herzen eine Flamme der Erleuchtung Buddhas brennt, gibt es nichts, was man suchen oder erwerben müsste. Wir sind erleuchtet, und alle Worte der Welt werden uns nicht das geben, was wir bereits haben. Der Zen-Mensch ist daher nur um eines bemüht, nämlich dessen gewahr zu werden, was...
by Michael Maliszewski
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Spiritual Dimensions of the Martial Arts is a study of the meditative and religious elements that form the core of the great martial arts traditions.
Unsurpassed in scope and detail, this martial arts book covers the spiritual beliefs and the practices of the fighting arts of India, China,...