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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2005
The Diamond Sutra, composed in India in the fourth century CE, is one of the most treasured works of Buddhist literature and is the oldest existing printed book in the world. It is known as the Diamond Sutra because its teachings are said to be like diamonds that cut away all dualistic thought, releasing...
The Book of Equanimity
Illuminating Classic Zen Koans
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2005
The Book of Equanimity contains the first-ever complete English language commentary on one of the most beloved classic collections of Zen teaching stories (koans), making them vividly relevant to spiritual seekers and Zen students in the twenty-first century. Continually emphasizing koans as effective...
Cultivating the Empty Field
The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Cultivating the Empty Field is a modern translation of the core of Chinese Ch'an master Hongzhi's Extensive Record.
First to articulate the meditation method known to contemporary Zen practitioners as shikantaza ("just sitting") Chinese Zen master Hongzhi is one of the most influential...
Keep Me in Your Heart a While
The Haunting Zen of Dainin Katagiri
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
"After my death I will come back and haunt over you, checking on your practice." Dainin Katagiri Roshi, one of the greatest pioneers of Zen in America, said this frequently, teasing Dosho Port and his fellow students. For Dosho, Katagiri Roshi's "haunting" still includes, to borrow a phrase from Warren...
Great Doubt
Practicing Zen in the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening.
“In this brief but remarkably thorough book, Boshan puts into words what it means to truly doubt. Not just to be skeptical—but to push all the way to the very foundations. Anyone interested in Zen can learn a whole lot from this little book.”
—from...
The True Dharma Eye
Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
A collection of three hundred koans compiled by Eihei Dogen, the thirteenth-century founder of Soto Zen in Japan, this book presents readers with a uniquely contemporary perspective on his profound teachings and their relevance for modern Western practitioners of Zen. Following the traditional format...
On Zen Practice
Body, Breath, and Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
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,...
It Came from Beyond Zen!
More Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
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...
Opening the Hand of Thought
Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
For over thirty years, Opening the Hand of Thought has offered an introduction to Zen Buddhism and meditation unmatched in clarity and power. This is the revised edition of Kosho Uchiyama's singularly incisive classic.
This new edition contains even more useful material: new prefaces, an index,...
The Book of Mu
Essential Writings on Zen's Most Important Koan
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
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,...
Wonderland
The Zen of Alice
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2005
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...
Wanting Enlightenment Is a Big Mistake
Teachings of Zen Master Seung San
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
A major figure in the transmission of Zen to the West, Zen Master Seung Sahn was known for his powerful teaching style, which was direct, surprising, and often humorous. He taught that Zen is not about achieving a goal, but about acting spontaneously from "don’t-know mind." It is from...
Elegant Failure
A Guide to Zen Koans
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
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...
by Bruno Pacheco
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: September 14, 2013
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...