Zen category: 918 books
The Art of Just Sitting
Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
Shikantaza--or "just sitting"--is one of the simplest, most subtle forms of meditation, and one of the most easily misunderstood. This peerless volume brings together a wealth of writings, from the Buddha himself to Bodhidharma and Dogen and many of modern Zen Buddhism's most influential masters,...
My Heart is a Golden Buddha
Buddhist Stories from Korea
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
A collection of inspiration and wisdom, seen through the tales of housewives and kings, monks and bandits, and the deep mountains of Korea.
In this new collection of thirty-three stories, one of Korea’s foremost Seon(Zen) masters introduces the richness and depth of Korea’s Buddhist...
The Zen of Living and Dying
A Practical and Spiritual Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 1998
To live life fully and die serenely—surely we all share these goals, so inextricably entwined. Yet a spiritual dimension is too often lacking in the attitudes, circumstances, and rites of death in modern society. Kapleau explores the subject of death and dying on a deeply personal level, interweaving...
The Essential Dogen
Writings of the Great Zen Master
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Eihei Dogen (1200–1253), founder of the Soto School of Zen Buddhism, is one of the greatest religious, philosophical, and literary geniuses of Japan. His writings have been studied by Zen students for centuries, particularly his masterwork, Shobo Genzo or Treasury of the True Dharma Eye. This is...
Zen Chants
Thirty-Five Essential Texts with Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A Zen chant is like a compass that sets us in the direction of the awakened life; it is the dynamic, audible counterpart to the silent practice of zazen, or sitting meditation; and it is a powerful expression of the fact that practice happens in community. Here is a concise guide to Zen chants for...
Subtle Sound
The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1996
Maurine Stuart (1922–1990) was one of a select group of students on the leading edge of Buddhism in America: a woman who became a Zen master. In this book, she draws on down-to-earth Zen stories, her friendships with Japanese Zen teachers, and her experiences as a concert pianist to apply the inner...
Zen and Shinto
A History of Japanese Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
How do the Japanese talk about their native philosophy, Shinto, a decade and a half after the Western Allies abolished it as a state religion? What is its relationship to Buddhism, and particularly to Zen? How modern can this very ancient creed ever be? These are some of the questions considered in...
Illuminating Silence
Insights on the Path of Chinese Zen Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
An insider's guide to the principles of Chan – or Chinese Zen – this book gives unfiltered access to the kind of illuminating experience with a Zen Master that is usually only available to a few fortunate practitioners.
Having originated in China in the 6th century, Chan Buddhism is now...
Nine-Headed Dragon River
Zen Journals 1969-1982
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 1998
In August 1968, naturalist-explorer Peter Matthiessen returned from Africa to his home in Sagaponack, Long Island, to find three Zen masters in his driveway—guests of his wife, a new student of Zen. Thirteen years later, Matthiessen was ordained a Buddhist monk. Written in the same format as his...
Being Zen
Bringing Meditation to Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
We can use whatever life presents, Ezra Bayda teaches, to strengthen our spiritual practice—including the turmoil of daily life. What we need is the willingness to just be with our experiences—whether they are painful or pleasing—opening ourselves to the reality of our lives without trying to...
Beyond Thinking
A Guide to Zen Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2004
Spiritual practice is not some kind of striving to produce enlightenment, but an expression of the enlightenment already inherent in all things: Such is the Zen teaching of Dogen Zenji (1200–1253) whose profound writings have been studied and revered for more than seven hundred years, influencing...
St. Nadie in Winter
Zen Encounters with Loneliness
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
St. Nadie in Winter is a spiritual autobiography that includes Zen poetry, memoir, and raw insight.
There are no easy answers to be found, no easy prescriptions in this stunning twenty-first century Buddhist book. Keenan's world-his boyhood Catholicism, his alcoholism, his struggle to maintain...
by Agam Bernardini
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Zen and the Art of Playing tennis is one of the first book that have analyzed the mental and psychological aspect of the game of tennis. The purpose of the book is to fill the great vacuum still existing about the mental and psychological side of the game of tennis; even today, when almost everybody...
Zen Shaolin Karate
The complete Practice, Philosophy and History
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
"Nathan Johnson has captured the essence of true karate-do." -Paul Clifton, Editor, Combat and Traditional Karate
Kata, the "present movements forming the backbone of all Karate styles", have been a source of endless confusion for the vast majority of karate students. Nathan...