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Healing Breath

Zen for Christians and Buddhists in a Wounded World

by Ruben L. F. Habito
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013

Healing our wounded Earth is not unrelated to healing our own personal wounds. The pains of the Earth and those of the individuals making up our Earth community cannot be separated. Thus the healing of our individual lives can become the basis of the healing of Earth. This book sheds light on Zen...
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Zen in Plain English

Experience the Essence of Zen

by Stephan Schuhmacher
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

No other book quite engages the reader in the kinds of perceptions and experiences that the seeker will have while following this path. The Zen masters are famous for their unorthodox ways of teaching the wisdom of the 'thing itself'. Their Koans - paradoxical stories, and questions - are designed...
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The Gateless Gate

The Classic Book of Zen Koans

by Koun Yamada
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005

In The Gateless Gate, one of modern Zen Buddhism's uniquely influential masters offers classic commentaries on the Mumonkan, one of Zen's greatest collections of teaching stories. This translation was compiled with the Western reader in mind, and includes Koan Yamada's clear and penetrating comments...
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by Alan Watts
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010

A fervent, lifelong student of Zen, Alan Watts shows us that it is both an experience — a singular, powerful moment of realization — and a simple way of life, with an awareness that affects every moment of every day. Adopted by mainstream America in a way that carries only a vague association...
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How to Cook Your Life

From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment

by Dogen, Kosho Uchiyama Roshi
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2005

In the thirteenth century, Zen master Dogen—perhaps the most significant of all Japanese philosophers, and the founder of the Japanese Soto Zen sect—wrote a practical manual of Instructions for the Zen Cook. In drawing parallels between preparing meals for the Zen monastery and spiritual training,...
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by Thomas Cleary
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 1997

Zen Buddhism emerged in China some fifteen centuries ago and remained the most dynamic and influential spiritual movement in Asia for more than a millennium. Though the teachings of the first Zen masters are sometimes considered innovation, they were actually a return to the core of Buddhist teaching...
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Golden Age Of Zen: Zen Masters Of The T

Zen Masters of the T'ang Dynasty

by John C. h. Wu
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010

This book gives a fascinating survey of the early years of Chinese Zen (Chan) Buddhism, staying focused on the movement of Buddhism to the land where Taoism and Confucianism flourished. Wu's survey, combined with interesting translations from these earliest Zen masters, reveals a time of spiritual...
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by Seung Sahn
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1997

The Compass of Zen is a simple, exhaustive—and often hilarious—presentation of the essence of Zen by a modern Zen Master of considerable renown. In his many years of teaching throughout the world, the Korean-born Zen Master Seung Sahn has become known for his ability to cut to the heart of Buddhist...
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What More Do You Want?

Zen Questions, Zen Answers

by Albert Low
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013

All readers, both novice and longtime practitioners, will encounter in this book new answers, and new questions, to the what, why and how of Zen practice. We've all had moments in our lives when we've thought, "Something is missing. There must be more to life than this." It is this...
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by Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007

Zen, from its foundation in China of the 6th Century A.D., has always been more than a religion. It is an intriguing system of principles and practices designed to give each individual the experience of eternity in a split second, the knowledge of divinity in every living thing. To create a...
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The Mind of Clover

Essays in Zen Buddhist Ethics

by Robert Aitken
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015

In Taking the Path of Zen, Robert Aitken provided a concise guide to zazen (Zen meditation) and other aspects of the practice of Zen. In The Mind of Clover he addresses the world beyond the zazen cushions, illuminating issues of appropriate personal and social action through an exploration of the...
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by Myokyo-ni
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011

Written by one of today's most distinguished teachers, this Zen book provides an authoritative introduction to Zen training from the perspective of someone who has gone through it. The author begins by setting out the basic Buddhist teaching based on the example of Buddha and then traces the...
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by Donald W. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011

Masao Abe: A Zen Life of Dialogue is a compilation of essays that cover the life and work of Masao Abe, perhaps one of the greatest Zen Buddhist communicators of the twentieth century. Masao Abe has opened up a rich dialogue between Japan and the West. He is considered the leading living Zen...
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A Zen Harvest

Japanese Folk Zen Sayings (Haiku, Dodoitsu, and Waka)

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Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015

One of the vital aspects of traditional Rinzai Zen koan study in Japan is jakugo, or capping-phrase exercises. When Zen students have attained sufficient mastery of meditation or concentration, they are given a koan (such as the familiar “What is the sound of one hand clapping?”) to study. When...
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