Zen category: 918 books
The Great Spring
Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
From beloved writing teacher and author of the best-selling Writing Down the Bones: a treasury of personal stories reflecting a life filled with journeys—inner and outer—zigzagging around the world and home again.
Here, Natalie Goldberg, "a writer both energized and enlightened"...
And the Flowers Showered
The Freudian Couch and Zen
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Using eleven Zen stories as a starting point and diving deep into their mysterious world, he then weaves his magical clarity on many diverse contemporary topics. From the true meaning of happiness to an understanding of the process of death, it's all here. To begin reading this book is to commence a...
The God Conspiracy
The Path from Superstition to Super Consciousness -- with Audio/Video
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Not believing, but only experiencing, says Osho in this inspiring book, is a way of finding truth and meaning. While Nietzsche's declaration that "God is dead, therefore man is free" was an incredible step in understanding, he argues, it is in itself a negative solution and does not bring freedom. Simply...
Messenger Of The Heart
The Book of Angelus Silesius, with observations by the ancient Zen masters
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
When mystics like Angelus Silesius speak of God, they do so from a vibrant intensity of awareness, and in a tone of voice one trusts at once. The timeless wisdom embedded in these humble rhymes is beautifully echoed by the observations of the ancient Zen masters which punctuate the text, and in the haiku-like...
The Still Point Dhammapada
Living the Buddha's Essential Teachings
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
The Dhammapada is much loved by Buddhist practitioners as a simple and straightforward rendition of some of Buddha's core teachings, and is read daily by thousands of people. While there are many translations available, few have an inclusive – and lyrical – sensibility. In studying various versions...
by Fulvio Alteriani
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 16, 2018
The Ceasing of Notions
An Early Zen Text from the Dunhuang Caves with Selected Comments
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Among the writings from the Dunhuang Caves, discovered in the mid-twentieth Century, are the Zen equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls--ancient texts unknown for centuries. The Ceasing of Notions is one such text. It takes a unique form: a dialogue between two imaginary figures, a master and his disciple,...
Buddhism Plain and Simple
The Practice of Being Aware Right Now, Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
When the Buddha was asked to sum up his teachings in a single word he said "awareness"—experiencing the whole of reality, seeing what is, and being entirely in the present. In this way, the mind is made free.
In Buddhism Plain and Simple, Zen priest and longtime teacher Steve Hagen...
Nothing Is Hidden
The Psychology of Zen Koans
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
In this inspiring and incisive offering, Barry Magid uses the language of modern psychology and psychotherapy to illuminate one of Buddhism's most powerful and often mysterious technologies: the Zen koan. What's more, Magid also uses the koans to expand upon the insights of psychology (especially...
by Thich Nhat Hanh
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
A treasury of writings and teachings from the beloved Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh.
Since Thich Nhat Hanh’s exile from his native Vietnam in 1966, this Zen Buddhist monk has gone on to become one of the most influential and beloved spiritual masters of our age. The seeming simplicity of his...
The Method of No-Method
The Chan Practice of Silent Illumination
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Here is a spiritual practice uncomplicated enough for anyone to learn, yet rich enough to be worked with for a lifetime. The traditional Chan (Chinese Zen) practice called Silent Illumination begins with nothing more than putting aside all thoughts except the awareness of oneself "just sitting."...
Sex Sin and Zen
A Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
With his one-of-a kind blend of autobiography pop culture and plainspoken Buddhism Brad Warner explores an A-to-Z of sexual topics from masturbation to dating gender identity to pornography. In addition to approaching sexuality from a Buddhist perspective he looks at Buddhism emptiness compassion...
Being Upright
Zen Meditation and Bodhisattva Precepts
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Being Upright takes us beyond the conventional interpretation of ethical precepts to the ultimate meaning that informs them. Reb Anderson first introduces us to the fundamental ideas of Zen Buddhist practice. Who was Shakyamuni Buddha and what was his central teaching? What does it mean to be a bodhisattva...
Wholehearted Way
A Translation of Eihei Dagen's Bendowa, With Commentary by Kosho Uchiyama Roshi
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The Wholehearted Way is a translation of Eihei Dogen's Bendowa, one of the primary texts on Zen practice. Transcending any particular school of Buddhism or religious belief, Dogen's profound and poetic writings are respected as a pinnacle of world spiritual literature. Bendowa, or A Talk on the Wholehearted...