Roy Melvyn: 26 books

Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki was a remarkable man. Throughout his long life he worked untiringly to bring the message of Zen, and Buddhism in general, to the West, and his reputation as a scholar and gifted teacher was internationally recognized. He touched the lives of many—from theologians and philosophers...

Nonduality is a hard concept to grasp at first. The most fundamental proposition is that ”I" exist, and all else in the universe is”not I". Our conditioned awareness also expresses itself as a judgmental spectrum with negative at one pole and positive at the other. In other words, our...

The Dhammapada, an anthology of 423 verses, has long been recognised as one of the masterpieces of early Buddhist literature. From ancient times to the present, the Dhammapada has been regarded as the most succinct expression of the Buddha's teaching found in the Theravada Pali Canon of scriptures...

Wu Hsin repeatedly emphasises that when one ceases to resist What-Is and becomes more in harmony with It, one attains a state of Ming, or clear seeing. Having arrived at this point, all action becomes wei wu wei, or action without action (non-forcing) and there is a working in harmony with What-Is to...

The purpose of Zen is to awaken to the bodhisattva within us. This perception, also called kensho, “seeing self-nature,” opens the way to a true Zen life lived in unrestricted liberation. To attain such freedom, one must strive in all of one’s activities to live in accordance with the Bodhisattva...

It is often said that Understanding is everything. Understanding, unapplied, is not enough. To have understanding while living as if one is a mere body/mind in a world, changes nothing. Understanding must be applied. One must be the Understanding. In that context, the truth is that the author really...

Do we possess an individual self or soul that is separate from our physical biology or are we simply an enormously complex biological network that mechanically produces our hopes, aspirations, dreams, desires, humor, and passions? Disillusionment provides provocative insights into this ages-old question and challenges the reader to re-examine their most closely held beliefs.

At the heart of Shin (Pure Land) Buddhist teaching lies a vision of true reality as alive with wisdom and compassion, working to bring all beings to the highest fulfillment of human life, the attainment of Buddhahood. Shinran teaches that this activity manifests itself as Amida Buddha, who resolved...

Throughout many centuries, religion and philosophy have sought to rescue man from his ego; both have failed. The last thousand years of acquired knowledge has made man neither more peaceful nor happier. Our energies must be redirected away from acquiring more knowledge regarding the world and inquiring...

When one reduces and eventually eradicates this false identification with worldly phenomena, including the inner phenomena of thoughts and images, what is discerned is what was and is always already the case. The instruction of Wu Hsin to disciple Xu Fengqin directly calls for a dissociation of one’s...

With No Other to Each Other, Wu Hsin raises the bar. No longer content to speak about the transcendent, he now addresses the immanent, clarifying that it is included in the transcendent. Such a view provides a resolution of the seeming incompatibility between the One and the many that has plagued philosophers...

The real life of Wu Hsin is a historical puzzle that may well never be resolved. Long lost texts have emerged from more than two milennia beneath the soil in South China. Written on bamboo and silk and entombed in burial sites of sages of the Southern Region, the writings of Wu Hsin are indeed a treasure....