Zen Buddhism category: 725 books

This updated landmark volume makes available for the first time in decades the teachings that were formative to a whole generation of American Zen teachers and students. Conceived as an overarching primer on the practice of Zen, chapters in this volume address every aspect of practice: beginning practice,...

Vol. 2 of Brad Warner’s Radical but Reverent Paraphrasing of Dogen’s Treasury of the True Dharma Eye In Japan in 1253, one of the great thinkers of his time died — and the world barely noticed. That man was the Zen monk Eihei Dogen. For centuries his main work, Shobogenzo, languished...

The word "mu" is one ancient Zen teacher's response to the earnest question of whether even a dog has "buddha nature". Discovering for ourselves the meaning of the master's response is the urgent work of each of us who yearns to be free and at peace. "Practicing Mu" is synonymous with practicing Zen,...

Written in the non-traditional, humorous, and slightly irreverent tone of books like Sit Down and Shut Up, and Dharma Punxs, Wonderlandis a highly original riff on Alice in Wonderland, using the classic story as a jumping off point for conveying the Zen concept of ‘One Mind’. Daniel Silberberg’s...

Zen koans are stories of exchanges between Zen masters and their disciples at the moment of enlightenment or near-enlightenment. These stories have long fascinated Western readers because of their wisdom, humor, and enigmatic quality. Drawing on over thirty years of practice and teaching, Richard...

De origem sânscrita, a palavra meditação pode ser também interpretada como ir além do pensamento. O Zen não é religião, não é filosofia e, muito menos, um dogma. É um estado de espírito, uma maneira de viver. O Zen é o aqui e agora, o simples e o espontâneo. É estar presente de corpo...

Buddhism For Beginners: Prepare to Be Enlightened By This Ancient and Beautiful Religion! Open Now Your Doors to Buddhism and Embrace It Into Your Daily Life! Buddhism is still a mystery to most of us. Most of us know only this religion found in Asia that professes a form of Buddhist...

Awakening into Buddhahood is an invaluable eBook for all walks of life.  It tells us that each of us has the wisdom, awareness, virtue, kindness, compassion, love, power of the Buddha within and will help guide us to our True Self, ceaselessly pointing us back to what we are, and what we have always...

“You need know nothing of Zen to become immersed in his work. You will inevitably know something of Zen when you emerge” (Jim Harrison, American Poetry Review).   Shinkichi Takahashi is one of the truly great figures in world poetry. In the classic Zen tradition of economy, disciplined attention,...

Zen rituals—such as chanting, bowing, lighting incense before the Buddha statue—are ways of recognizing the sacredness in all of life. A ritual is simply a deliberate and focused moment that symbolizes the care with which we should be approaching all of life, and practicing the Zen liturgy is...

With a much-needed sense of levity, Daju Suzanne Friedman teaches the art of keeping one’s body, mind, and spirit together while living with cancer. "Layman Wang once asked his attendant,'What would you do if a dragon suddenly arrived here?' His attendant answered, 'I wouldn't pay attention...

O zen nada ensina, apenas aponta o caminho das boas ações. Os mestre lhe abrem a porta. Mas é você quem deve atravessá-la. Na essência do zen estão os ensinamentos budistas de Sidarta Gautama, o Buda, e a prática da meditação. As técnicas de meditação usadas pelo zen nos ajudam a ser...

Jodo’s interpretations of the stories and koans of Zen master Ejo Takata • Offers more than 60 Zen teaching tales, initiatory stories, koans, and haikus for self-realization and spiritual awakening • Each story or koan is accompanied by the author’s lucid and penetrating commentary,...

Buddhism is a religion which must be viewed from many angles. Its original form, as preached by Gautama in India and developed in the early years succeeding, and as embodied in the sacred literature of early Buddhism, is not representative of the actual Buddhism of any land today. The faithful student...