Zen Buddhism category: 725 books
Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom
Three Fascicles from Shobogenzo with Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Insightful commentary on a beloved ancient philosopher of Zen by a beloved contemporary master of Zen.
Famously insightful and famously complex, Eihei Dogen’s writings have been studied and puzzled over for hundreds of years. In Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom, Kosho Uchiyama, beloved twentieth-century...
by Andrea Scarsi
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Enlightenment, a common term in the Zen world, is the release of all the synapses, that floating free give the sensation of the opening of the thousand petals of the lotus flower of divine consciousness. Zen is famous for being weird, sharp, and sometimes violent. Its funny stories, seemingly meaningless...
The Wisdom of Huineng, Chinese Buddhist Philosopher
The Platform Sutra and Other Translations
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
For a non-Chinese and non-Buddhist like me, Chu Dongweis version of Huineng comes as a revelation. Chus lucid prose and verse translation of the great sage in my view opens us to what ultimately we cannot know but must always seek: the understanding of the nature of reality and of the ground of beingwhat...
Living by Vow
A Practical Introduction to Eight Essential Zen Chants and Texts
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This immensely useful book explores Zen's rich tradition of chanted liturgy and the powerful ways that such chants support meditation, expressing and helping us truly uphold our heartfelt vows to live a life of freedom and compassion. Exploring eight of Zen's most essential and universal liturgical...
by Kazuaki Tanahashi
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2000
Enlightenment Unfolds is a sequel to Kaz Tanahashi's previous collection, Moon in a Dewdrop, which has become a primary source on Dogen for Western Zen students. Dogen Zenji (1200–1253) is unquestionably the most significant religious figure in Japanese history. Founder of the Soto school of Zen...
Beating the Cloth Drum
Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Hakuin Ekaku (1685–1769) is one of the most influential figures in Zen Buddhism. He revitalized the Rinzai Zen tradition (which emphasizes the use of koans, or unanswerable questions, in meditation practice), and all masters of that school today trace their lineage back through him. He is responsible...
Realizing Genjokoan
The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Dogen, the thirteenth-century Zen master who founded the Japanese Soto school of Zen, is renowned as one the world's most remarkable religious geniuses. His works are both richly poetic and deeply insightful and philosophical, pointing to the endless depths of Zen exploration. And almost precisely...
Three-Hundred-Mile Tiger
The Record of Lin-Chi Translation and Commentary by Sokei-An
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Sokei-an translated the Record of Lin-chi (Lin-chi lu) from 1931 to 1933, in his first series of lectures. He felt that Americans needed original Chinese Zen source materials, translated and commented upon by a Zen master, and there were no such materials in those early days. Sokei-an was the first...
by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
A One Hour Short & Sweet Zen Retreat encourages you to enjoy quiet, gather your wits about you, delight in nature, nourish yourself, focus your attention, love the world you inhabit, clarify your spiritual intentions, and deepen your connection with the whole of you. It is a simple practice that requires...
by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Tai Sheridan's 'Zen Prayers' addresses what is unsettled within you and cultivates integrity and virtue. Zen prayer includes intimacy with the ground of Being, making yourself whole through honest self-reflection, clarifying your deepest spiritual intentions, wishing for the welfare...
Treasury of the True Dharma Eye
Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shobo Genzo, in Japanese) is a monumental work, considered to be one of the profoundest expressions of Zen wisdom ever put on paper, and also the most outstanding literary and philosophical work of Japan. It is a collection of essays by Eihei Dogen (1200–1253), founder...
Don't Be a Jerk
And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
The Shōbōgenzō (The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye) is a revered eight-hundred-year-old Zen Buddhism classic written by the Japanese monk Eihei Dōgen. Despite the timeless wisdom of his teachings, many consider the book difficult to understand and daunting to read. In Don’t Be a Jerk, Zen priest...
Zazen
The Way to Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
The human mind is inherently free. It neither affirms nor denies. It is not constrained by the conflict of the opposites, like right and wrong or self and others. An awakened mind knows that the dynamic unity between self and others forms part of an integrated whole. Having direct knowledge of this...
The Art of Just Sitting
Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
Shikantaza--or "just sitting"--is one of the simplest, most subtle forms of meditation, and one of the most easily misunderstood. This peerless volume brings together a wealth of writings, from the Buddha himself to Bodhidharma and Dogen and many of modern Zen Buddhism's most influential masters,...