Zen category: 918 books
One Buddha is Not Enough
A Story of Collective Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2006
This is the ebook version of One Buddha Is Not Enough. How do we learn to believe in ourselves and not just rely on our spiritual teachers? Based on a retreat that Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh organized but then couldn't attend, One Buddha Is Not Enough is a book on how to become your own teacher and...
The Seeds of Love
Growing Mindful Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Using the garden as a metaphor, The Seeds of Love offers a process for creating mindfulness.
From a Buddhist perspective, everything affects our consciousness and enters metaphorically as a seed. This occurs through the development of the practice of mindfulness, and using its tools to maintain...
Training in Compassion
Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Lojong is the Tibetan Buddhist practice that involves working with short phrases (called "slogans") as a way of generating bodhichitta, the heart and mind of enlightened compassion. Though the practice is more than a millennium old, it has become popular in the West only in the last twenty...
by Master Sheng Yen
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 1999
Complete Enlightenment is the first authoritative translation and commentary on The Sutra of Complete Enlightenment, a central text that shaped the development of East Asian Buddhism and Ch'an (Chinese Zen). The text is set in the form of a transcription of discussions between the Buddha and the...
Encouraging Words
Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
*"The inspiration that guided monks and nuns in ancient times is our own deepest incentive as we establish our practice in a world that desperately needs new forms of kinship and love."
—Robert Aitken
Encouraging Words* is a collection of short talks and brief essays that Aitken...
by Hee-Jin Kim
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Eihei Dogen, the founder of the Japanese branch of the Soto Zen Buddhist school, is considered one of the world's most remarkable religious philosophers. Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist is a comprehensive introduction to the genius of this brilliant thinker. This thirteenth-century figure has much to...
Faith in Mind
A Commentary on Seng Ts'an's Classic
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
The Supreme Way is not difficult
If only you do not pick and choose.
Neither love nor hate,
And you will clearly understand.
Be off by a hair,
And you are as far from it as heaven and earth.
These vivid lines begin one of the most beloved and commented upon of all Zen texts, the Hsin Hsin Ming...
Shattering the Great Doubt
The Chan Practice of Huatou
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Huatou is a skillful method for breaking through the prison of mental habits into the spacious mind of enlightenment. The huatou is a confounding question much like a Zen koan. Typical ones are "What is wu [nothingness]?" or "What was my original face before birth-and-death?" But...
When I Find You Again, It Will Be in Mountains
The Selected Poems of Chia Tao
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Chia Tao (779-843), an erstwhile Zen monk who became a poet during China's Tang dynasty, recorded the lives of the sages, masters, immortals, and hermits who helped establish the great spiritual tradition of Zen Buddhism in China.
Presented in both the original Chinese and Mike O'Connor's beautifully...
Zen and the Art of Foosball
A Beginner's Guide to Table Soccer
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2002
Welcome to the exciting world of foosball! This book is your guide to learning how to play foosball. In this book, you will learn the basics of the game: how to pass the ball, shoot the ball, and defend against shots. You will also learn advanced techniques for improving your game. Advanced players...
Making a Change for Good
A Guide to Compassionate Self-Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
According to Zen teacher Cheri Huber, we are conditioned to think that if we were only a little better in some way, we would be happy: "Life isn't the way it should be and it's my fault!" But, Huber says, no amount of self-punishment will ever make us happy or bring us control over life’s...
At Home in the Muddy Water
A Guide to Finding Peace Within Everyday Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
May we exist like a lotus, / At home in the muddy water. / Thus we bow to life as it is.
This verse is an important reminder, says Ezra Bayda, of what the spiritual life is truly about: the willingness to open ourselves to whatever life presents—no matter how messy or complicated. And through...
by Ulrike Wischer, Hinnerk Polenski
Language: German
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Der bekannte deutsche Zen-Meister Hinnerk Polenski beantwortet in verständlicher, origineller und immer lebensnaher Weise alltägliche Fragen – klar und einfach gestellt von der Journalistin Ulrike Wischer: Warum leiden wir? Wie stoppe ich die Gedankenflut in meinem Kopf? Gibt es wirklich ein Rezept...
by James Cordova
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
This lush, beautifully illustrated narrative breathes humanity and warmth into one of the most famous and enigmatic koans of the Zen tradition.
The Story of Mu uses luminous illustrations and a mythic narrative structure to convey the great potential for peace and enlightenment that we all...