Zen category: 918 books
by Herrigel Eugen
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
The book sets forth theories about motor learning and control that provide lessons for learning any sport or physical activity. For example, a central idea in the book is that through years of practice, a physical activity becomes effortless both mentally and physically, as if the body executes complex and difficult movements without conscious control from the mind.
Attaining the Way
A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
This is an inspiring guide to the practice of Chan (Chinese Zen) in the words of four great masters of that tradition. It includes teachings from contemporary masters Xuyun and Sheng Yen, and from Jiexian and Boshan of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). Though the texts were written over a period of...
A White Tea Bowl
100 Haiku from 100 Years of Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A White Tea Bowl is a selection of 100 haiku written by Mitsu Suzuki, the widow of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, and published in celebration of her 100th birthday. The compelling introduction by Zen priest Norman Fischer describes the profound impact on her life and work of war in Japan and social upheaval...
Everything Is Workable
A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Conflict is going to be a part of your life—as long as you have relationships, a job, or dry cleaning to be picked up. Bracing yourself against it won’t make it go away, but if you approach it consciously, you can navigate it in way that not only honors everyone involved but makes it a source...
Riding the Ox Home
Stages on the Path of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
"Maps and guideposts are helpful when we undertake a journey. The ten Ox-Herding Pictures, the accompanying ancient poems, and a modern commentary by John Daido Loori, sketch the spiritual path encountered in Zen training, a path of exhaustive study of the self and the realization of the ultimate...
Being-Time
A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A tour-de-force guide to Zen Master Dogen’s most subtle and sophisticated philosophical premises: that being and time are inseparable.
“Impermanence is time itself, being itself—yet time and being are not at all as we imagine them to be. To really understand and fully embrace this point...
The Infinite Mirror
Commentaries on Two Chan Classics
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Here is the inimitable Master Sheng Yen at his best, illuminating the ancient texts of the Chinese Zen tradition to show how wonderfully practical they really are, even for us today. The texts, written by two of the founders of the Ts’ao-tung sect of Chan Buddhism, are poems entitled Inquiry into...
Waking Up to What You Do
A Zen Practice for Meeting Every Situation with Intelligence and Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2006
Life is rising up to meet us at every moment. The question is: Are we there to meet it or not? Diane Rizzetto presents a simple but supremely effective practice for meeting every moment of our lives with mindfulness, using the Zen precepts as tools to develop a keen awareness of the motivations behind...
by Thich Nhat Hanh
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
How can we let go of illusion and see ourselves as we really are? Profound and always approachable, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh teaches us the art of looking deeply-in to our knee-jerk assumptions and runaway thoughts-so we can recognize the true meaning and essence of our lives.
The Mindfulness...
Just This Is It
Dongshan and the Practice of Suchness
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The joy of "suchness"—the absolute and true nature inherent in all appearance—shines through the teachings attributed to Dongshan Liangjie (807–869), the legendary founder of the Caodong lineage of Chan Buddhism (the predecessor of Sōtō Zen). Taigen Dan Leighton looks at the teachings...
The Ecstasy of Enlightenment
Teaching of Natural Tantra
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
The Ecstasy of Enlightenment is an inside look at the spiritual world of Tantra--one of themost sophisticated, alluring, and controversial forms of Buddhism. Cleary unlocks the mysteries of the Carya-Giti, a collections of teachings by more than twenty famous Siddhas, or Tantric adepts, who lived during...
Beyond Mindfulness
Living Life Through Everyday Zen
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2015
Zen Buddhist teachings and writings of the late Ken Jones
Under the Sword
Life Lessons to Awaken the Zen Warrior in You
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In our fast-changing, uncertain world, it's easy to feel under the gun. Now Zen master Vernon Kitabu Turner throws away the gun and picks up the sword in an inspiring practical guide filled with step-by step advice to help you transform your life by unifying mind, body, and spirit. Wrapping profound...
What's Wrong with Mindfulness (And What Isn't)
Zen Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Mindfulness seems to be everywhere—but are we sure that's a good thing? Teachers Sallie Jiko Tisdale, Gil Fronsdal, Norman Fischer, and more explain how removing mindfulness from Buddhism may set a dangerous precedent.
Mindfulness is in fashion. Oprah loves it, Google teaches it to employees—it...