Zen Buddhism category: 725 books
Song of Mind
Wisdom from the Zen Classic Xin Ming
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
"No words can explain enlightenment," says the seventh-century Zen classic Xin Ming, or "Song of Mind," yet, paradoxically, this poem is a masterpiece of expressing the inexpressible. In his commentary on it, Chan Master Sheng Yen takes a practical approach, opening up the language...
If You're Lucky, Your Heart Will Break
Field Notes from a Zen Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Using vignettes and anecdotes from his own life - as well as quotations drawn from sources as varied as the Bible, Yiddish aphorisms, and stand-up comedy - Zen teacher and Unitarian Universalist minister James Ishmael Ford shares the gifts won over his lifetime of full-hearted engagement with the...
Bearing Witness
A Zen Master's Lessons in Making Peace
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Zen practitioner and non-profit community developer Bernie Glassman offers powerful teaching stories that illustrate ways of making peace one moment at a time. Each chapter focuses on an event or person and demonstrates how a particular peacemaker vow is put into practice. Through these stories and Glassman's personal testimony we come to understand the essence of peacemaking.
Single White Monk
Tales of Death, Failure, and Bad Sex (Although Not Necessarily in that Order)
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Think the life of a Zen monk is all serenity, peace, and austerity? Think again. Here, Shozan Jack Haubner gives an often-hilarious, always-candid account of what it’s really like behind those monastery walls. Haubner’s adventures include memories of his dysfunctional Midwestern family that drove...
Teachings of the Earth
Zen and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
According to Zen teaching, everything in the universe exists interdependently, so valuing the welfare of one being over another, or of humans over the planet, makes no sense at all. This teaching, which can empower us to care passionately about the earth and its future, is not only a Zen principle,...
Free Yourself of Everything
Radical Guidance in the Spirit of Zen and Christian Mysticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
This guide to meditation and spirituality draws on both Buddhist and Christian sources to present a unique path to enlightenment.
Intended for those who earnestly seek spiritual guidance, this book conveys, with clear structure and precise language, the deepest wisdom of eastern and western...
by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Poet-Philosopher and Zen Priest Tai Sheridan's 'Buddha in Blue Jeans' is an extremely short, simple, and straight forward universal guide to the practice of sitting quietly and being yourself, which is the same as being Buddha. Sitting quietly can teach many ways to accept life, meet...
by Tom Covert
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Making a beautiful Zen garden can be just as peaceful and fulfilling as having one. Such a refuge can be placed in nearly any space, ranging from large, sweeping gardens that encompass acres to tiny, desktop gardens that take up no more room than a notebook. Here's how to create a constantly changing...
Most Intimate
A Zen Approach to Life's Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
For Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, intimacy is what Zen practice is all about: the realization of the essential lack of distinction between self and other that inevitably leads to wisdom and compassionate action. She approaches the practice of intimacy beginning at its most basic level—the intimacy with...
Nothing on My Mind
Berkeley, LSD, Two Zen Masters, and a Life on the Dharma Trail
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1996
This frank account by a longtime Zen student looks back over a journey that began in Berkeley in the heady sixties when the author experimented with psychedelics and started to study with Suzuki Roshi, who encouraged his students to find a genuine way of practicing Zen.
The Zen Book of Life
Wisdom from the Great Masters, Teachers, and Writers of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Inspired by the teachings of the Buddha and other great masters, teachers, and writers, this is a book designed to help people connect to their inner divinity and find their spiritual path. It is overflowing with profound quotes, sayings, and insights, each presented alone, allowing the reader to...
by Jack Maguire
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
The notion of spending days at a time in silence and meditation amid the serene beauty of a Zen monastery may be appealing--but how do you do it, and what can you really expect from the experience? Waking Up provides the answers for everyone who's just curious, as well as for all those who have dreamed...
by Zhuhong, J. C. Cleary
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Translation of a work known in Chinese as Chan Guan Ze Jin (Impetus for Advancing in the Zen Gate), put together in China around 1600 A.D. by Zhuhong of Yunqui temple. It is a compendium of practical lessons on meditating with koans, which are often used as focal points in Zen meditations.
Intrinsic Awakened Nature
Manifesting the Wisdom of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In the fourth book in a series of contemporary Zen studies, Intrinsic Awakened Nature, Venerable Master Miao Tsan of the Vairocano Zen Monastery explores the manner in which many Western and Eastern religions share common principles, despite the distinct ways in which they spread their teachings....