Zen category: 918 books

Who am I? Am I this human body that is born and dies? Or am I something else? Although we cannot truly know the answer to such questions, we can be guided on a path that will eventually lead us home, to whomever and whatever we really are. Koans are a means to discover this path. Koans have...

Estos pensamientos se basan en la “filosofía” del budismo zen y en la práctica de la meditación cotidiana. Pero no hay que tomárselos totalmente en serio, pues no forman parte de ningún dogma. Pueden ser parte de una filosofía de vida, de una forma de actuar para hacer de ella un camino...

Dans cet ouvrage, les auteurs mettent en lumière le lien profond unissant depuis plus d'un millénaire le Zen au kung fu ainsi qu'à d'autres arts martiaux chinois. Au fil des pages, les aspects externes ainsi qu'internes du kung fu, du qì gōng, et du tàijiquán...

Kwaliteit… We gebruiken het woord vaak maar als we het moeten verduidelijken lijkt het opeens een vaag en onduidelijk begrip. Tegelijkertijd is kwaliteit een van de meest gebruikte begrippen in ons bestaan. Het lijkt overal aanwezig: in producten, in werk, in relaties. Het wordt zo vaak gebruikt...

With clarity of thought and realism, Rev. Ross Cribb sets out to provide an alternative vocabulary with which to describe significant events, human nature and spirituality, with the goal to empower individuals to have happier and more meaningful lives. His highly readable combination of Zen, philosophy,...

A moving memoir of a journey of self-discovery through Zen Buddhism In this autobiographical work, Natalie Goldberg takes us on a journey from her suburban childhood to her maturation as a writer. From the high-school classroom where she first listened to the rain, to her fifteen years as a...

Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in Crooked Cucumber, the first full biography of any Zen master to be published in the West. To make up his intimate and engrossing...

Everybody loves Novice to Master! As you'll see in the glowing endorsements and reviews included below, this modern spiritual classic has been embraced by readers of all types. In his singularly humorous and biitingly direct way, Zen abbot Soko Morinaga tells the story of his rigorous training...

At once profound, spiritual, and witty, Master of the Three Ways is a remarkable work about human nature, the essence of life, and how to live simply and with awareness. In three hundred and fifty-seven verses, the author, Hung Ying-ming—a seventeenth-century Chinese sage—explores good and evil,...

Thich Nhat HanhUnderstanding the Life and Teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh: The Zen Buddhist Monk Who Traveled the World in Exile While Spreading His Message of Love, Peace, and UnderstandingBy Dr. Ruth CarrThich Nhat Hanh was born in the city of Qu'ng Ngai, Vietnam in 1926 as...

David Chadwick, a Texas-raised wanderer, college dropout, bumbling social activist, and hobbyhorse musician, began his study under Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1966. In 1988 Chadwick flew to Japan to begin a four-year period of voluntary exile and remedial Zen education. In Thank You and OK! he recounts...

In America in the late 1950s and early 60s, the world—and life itself—became a legitimate artist’s tool, aligning with Zen Buddhism’s emphasis on “enlightenment at any moment” and living in the now. Simultaneously and independently, parallel movements were occurring in Japan, as artists...

For more than thirty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice—"it...

Based on four retreats that Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh led specifically for people of color, this book is for people of all colors, backgrounds, and experiences who have ever felt excluded or alienated, or anyone concerned with issues of social justice. Although Together We Are One is based on teachings...