Albert Low: 12 books

Cover of Creating Consciousness
by Albert Low
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010

“Creating Consciousness: A Study of Consciousness, Creativity, Evolution, and Violence” is a spiritual & intellectual treasure from Zen Master Albert Low. Creating Consciousness is Low’s profound discussion of the philosophical, religious, and scientific problem of consciousness in relation...
Cover of Christian Love Buddhist Wisdom
by Albert Low
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009

Albert Low’s book shows how the religious impulse is expressed by two entirely different kinds of religions: religion as a set of beliefs centered on a unique, dynamic center such as Christ, Mohammed or Buddha, and religion as a quest. Dr Albert Low is the teacher at the Montreal Zen Center and an internationally acclaimed author.
Cover of Living With Yourself: A Voyage of Discovery
by Albert Low
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009

Have you reached a point in your life where the old patterns and habits just don't work anymore? Perhaps it is just a discomfort that you feel, an itch you cannot scratch. Life just doesn't have that same zest it once did. You cannot find satisfaction no matter what you try. Or perhaps...
Cover of Zen: Talks, Stories and Commentaries
by Albert Low
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2009

Albert Low, teacher and director at the Montreal Zen Center and dharma heir of Roshi Philip Kapleau, provides an engaging collection of talks, stories and commentaries on Zen. Though the entries range from dharma talks on koans to discussions on Buddhism and Christianity, they all address concrete concerns of our lives and reveal the author's profound insights.
Cover of Zen and the Sutras
by Albert Low
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2009

The basic message of all the Mahayana Buddhist sutras is awakening - what the Zen teacher Bassui called "seeing the wordless sutra." Zen and the Sutras is an accessible study of the major Mahayana sutras as manuals for the practice of Zen. Low’s insights and conclusions about spirituality...
Cover of Hakuin’s Chant in Praise of Zazen
by Albert Low
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009

Hakuin Zenji is one of Japan’s most celebrated Zen masters. Tradition tells us that he single-handedly revived Rinzai Zen in Japan. He was an artist, calligrapher and writer, as well as being a Zen master. He said that writing is verbal prajna and his writings are vigorous, courageous, and always...
Cover of Koans, Creativity and Consciousness
by Albert Low
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2012

Science has consistently rejected subjective data in science. Undoubtedly the main reason for this is that most scientists consider it to be unreliable and difficult to verify. Our immediate experience is, indeed, often incomplete, distorted, or simply false. Another important reason for rejecting...
Cover of Working with Zen Koans
by Albert Low
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009

Because words can no more hold the truth than a net can hold water, we use koans. Koans are sayings, or doings, of Zen masters, the patriarchs and Buddha. Take for example the koan: The Sound of One Hand clapping. In its entirety it reads: “You know the sound of two hands clapping. What is the sound...
Cover of The Iron Cow of Zen
by Albert Low
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2009

A koan is a saying by a Zen master, the most famous being "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" Seemingly incomprehensible, a koan is actually an invitation to think in a new way, a tool to startle the consciousness into enlightenment. Drawing on the views of diverse thinkers from Buddha,...
Cover of The Corporate Crisis As Opportunity: Restoring Balance of Power
by Albert Low
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014

The world faces a crisis. Band-aids and patchwork technical solutions are not enough to get us through. Overpopulation, global warming, the clash of cultures and an unsteady financial climate are just some of the causes. We do not face technical, economic or social problems: We face dilemmas, and...
Cover of Creativity and Intention in Evolution
by Albert Low
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2012

Charles Darwin has now taken his place as one of the great scientific innovators of all time and has changed for ever the way we see ourselves, and our place in the universe. Even those who hold to the biblical account of creation and see Darwin’s theory as a profound error can no longer take for...
Cover of Restoring Meaning: Evolution Revisited
by Albert Low
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015

“Restoring Meaning: Evolution Revisited” offers an original and fertile way to integrate spiritual and scientific views of human evolution. It offers a new and refreshing alternative to the way we think about our origins: random mutation (mechanistic neo-Darwinism), Genesis (God did it all personally),...
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