Zen category: 918 books
Paradise in Plain Sight
Lessons from a Zen Garden
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Come See the Garden That Is Your Life When Zen teacher Karen Maezen Miller and her family land in a house with a hundred-year-old Japanese garden, she uses the paradise in her backyard to glean the living wisdom of our natural world. Through her eyes, rocks convey faith, ponds preach stillness, flowers...
Ancient Music in the Pines
In Zen Mind Suddenly Stops
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Today, humanity is caught up in the mad complexity of the mind, and as never before, there is an urgent need to rediscover simplicity and innocence. Osho brings to life the inherent and timeless wisdom of traditional Zen stories.
by Kaiten Nukariya
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This study of Zen philosophy and the disciples in China and Japan elaborates on the differences between Mahayana Buddhism and Theraveda. The Zen sect is one of many Buddhist sects and has millions of followers worldwide. Contents: Preface To Second Edition. Preface. Introduction. Chapter I. Life Of...
The Authentic Life
Zen Wisdom for Living Free from Complacency and Fear
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Ever feel like your efforts to live a life of wisdom, honesty, and compassion are hijacked by, well, life? Take heart. Ezra Bayda has good news: life’s challenges aren’t obstacles to our path—they are the path. Understanding that liberates us to use every aspect of what life presents us with...
The Mountains and Waters Sutra
A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's "Sansuikyo"
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
An indispensable map of a classic Zen text.
“Mountains and waters are the expression of old buddhas.”
So begins “Sansuikyo,” or “Mountains and Waters Sutra,” a masterpiece of poetry and insight from Eihei Dogen, the thirteenth-century founder of the Soto school of Zen.
Shohaku...
by Scott Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1999
In this book, Shaw draws upon his knowledge of Asian culture and years of study in the martial arts to show us how we, too, can achieve higher understanding through the tenets of Zen Buddhism. Iado - the meditative way of the sword becomes a path to enlightenment. The first step is to learn to control...
Calming the Fearful Mind
A Zen Response to Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2001
In a time of terrorism and uncertainty, how can any of us feel truly safe? Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh looks at the real roots of terrorism and fear and offers the way out: a path of compassion and open-heartedness. In this unique book, Thich Nhat Hanh teaches that we will only be safe when we acknowledge...
Each Moment Is the Universe
Zen and the Way of Being Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
It’s easy to regard time as a commodity—we even speak of "saving" or "spending" it. We often regard it as an enemy, when we feel it slipping away before we’re ready for time to be up. The Zen view of time is radically different than that: time is not something separate from...
The Heart of Understanding
Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
The heart of the Prajñaparamita Sutra is regarded as the essence of Buddhist teaching, offering subtle and profound teachings on non-duality and the letting go of all preconceived notions, opinions, and attachments, and so becoming open to all the wonders of our life.
The Heart Sutra is recited...
Entangling Vines
A Classic Collection of Zen Koans
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Entangling Vines is a translation of the Shumon Kattoshu, the only major koan text to have been compiled in Japan rather than China. Most of the central koans of the contemporary Rinzai koan curriculum are contained in this work. Indeed, Kajitani Sonin (1914–1995)—former chief abbot of Shokoku-ji...
The Sayings of Layman P'ang
A Zen Classic of China
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
These wise and funny stories have been an inspiration to spiritual practice for more than twelve centuries, particularly for all those who follow the Buddhist path as laypeople. Layman P’ang (740–808) was a merchant and family man who one day put all his money and possessions in a boat and sunk...
Sky Above, Great Wind
The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Ryokan (1758–1831) is, along with Dogen and Hakuin, one of the three giants of Zen in Japan. But unlike his two renowned colleagues, Ryokan was a societal dropout, living mostly as a hermit and a beggar. He was never head of a monastery or temple. He liked playing with children. He had no dharma...
The Gateless Barrier
The Wu-Men Kuan (Mumonkan)
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The Gateless Barrier is generally acknowledged to be the fundamental koan collection in the literature of Zen. Gathered together by Wu-men (Mumon), a thirteenth-century master of the Lin-chi (Rinzai) school, it is composed of forty-eight koans, or cases, each accompanied by a brief comment and poem...
How to Raise an Ox
Zen Practice as Taught in Master Dogen's Shobogenzo
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
The writings of Zen master Dogen are among the highest achievements not only of Japanese literature but of world literature. Dogen's writings are a near-perfect expression of truth, beautifully expressing the best of which the human race is capable. In this volume, Francis Cook presents ten selections...