Zen category: 918 books
Only Don't Know
Selected Teaching Letters of Zen Master Seung Sahn
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 1999
Here is the inimitable Zen Master Seung Sahn up close and personal—in selections from the correspondence that was one of his primary modes of teaching. Seung Sahn received hundreds of letters per month, each of which he answered personally, and some of the best of which are included here. His frank...
Dream Conversations
On Buddhism and Zen
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 1996
Dream Conversations is a collection of a renowned Japanese master's written replies to questions about the true nature of Zen. In short, simply worded teachings, Muso Kokushi (1275–1351), also known as Muso Soseki, exposes common misconceptions with unprecedented clarity, offering psychological...
The Practice of Perfection
The Paramitas from a Zen Buddhist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Robert Aiken, author of Encouraging Words and Taking the Path of Zen, is America’s most senior Zen Roshi. In this new book he presents the Ten Pãramitãs, of Transcendental Perfections—namely, giving, mortality, forbearance, zeal, focused meditation, wisdom, compassionate means, aspiration, spiritual...
The Teacup and the Skullcup
Where Zen and Tantra Meet
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The Teacup and the Skullcup is made up of edited transcripts from two seminars that Chögyam Trungpa gave near the beginning of his North American teaching career in 1974—one in Barnet, Vermont, and one in Boston—called "Zen and Tantra." Although Trungpa Rinpoche belonged to the tantra...
Whole World is a Single FLower
365 Kong-ans for Everyday Life with Questions and Commentary by Zen Master Seung Sahn and a Forword by Stephen Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
This remarkable Zen book is of great importance not only for the variety of the 365 kong-ans, but for Zen Master Seung Sahn's own questions and commentary which accompany each kong-an. This prodding and guidance serve as guideposts along a difficult road to enlightenment. The kong-ans themselves and...
Zen 24/7
All Zen, All the Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Enlightenment is within reach -- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
If you're searching for revelation and contentment, look no further than a handshake, a cup of coffee -- even your laundry pile. The most mundane details of life contain zen's profound truths, if you're of the mind to look for...
Beyond Happiness
The Zen Way to True Contentment
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Many books have been published in recent years on happiness. Ezra Bayda, a remarkably down-to-earth Zen teacher, believes that the happiness "boom" has been largely a bust for readers. Why? Because it's precisely the pursuit of happiness that keeps us trapped in cycles of dissatisfaction...
When Buddhists Attack
The Curious Relationship Between Zen and the Martial Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Uncover the historical truth about Buddhist warrior monks with this informative and enlightening book.
Film, television and popular fiction have long exploited the image of the serene Buddhist monk who is master of the deadly craft of hand-to-hand combat. While these media overly romanticize...
by Frederic Donner
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Zen and the Successful Horseplayer will provide the beginner,
the advanced, and even the professional horse gambler with
specific resources to become a winning player. This book will
also demonstrate the applicability of Zen and Eastern
philosophy to handicapping, betting, and winning.
Learn...
by Adam Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
This book is a sort of introduction to Zen and the art of everyday living. The author reviews his observations at a new job place, a pet store. He finds it educational, conventional and aligning with his philosophy of Zen. Some appearances and experiences he has got while working at the store compliment...
by Eliot Fintushel
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
The world of ZEN CITY is a world of passionate desires: the desire for power, the desire for order, and the desire for self-transcendence. ZEN CITY is a story about the struggle and violence of people who see themselves as striving for the ultimate. Along the way, ZEN CITY presents a sly critique of the practice and perversions of imported spirituality in twentieth-century America.
Experience
Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
By what narrow path is the ineffable silence of Zen cleft by the scratch of a pen? The distilled insights of forty years, Norman Fischer’s Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion is a collection of essays by Zen master Fischer about experimental writing as a spiritual practice.
Raised...
You Have to Say Something
Manifesting Zen Insight
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2000
Dainin Katagiri (1928–1990) was a central figure in the transmission of Zen in America. His first book, Returning to Silence, emphasized the need to return to our original, enlightened state of being, and became one of the classics of Zen in America. In You Have to Say Something, selections from...
Inside the Grass Hut
Living Shitou's Classic Zen Poem
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Enter the mind and practice of Zen: apply the insights of one of Zen's classic poems to your life--here and now.
Destined to become a trusted, dog-eared companion.
Shitou Xiqian’s “Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage” is a remarkably accessible work of profound depth; in thirty-two lines...