Zen category: 918 books
Endless Path
Awakening Within the Buddhist Imagination: Jataka Tales, Zen Practice, and Daily Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
***WINNER, 2011 Storytelling World Resource Award – Best Storytelling Collection
The jataka tales—stories of the Buddha’s past lives (in both human and animal form)—were first said to have been told by the Buddha himself 2,500 years ago. Five hundred and fifty jataka tales comprise...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
In this eclectic anthology, more than 20 scientists, nature writers, poets, and Zen practitioners, attest to how paying attention to nature can be a healing antidote to the hectic and harrying pace of our lives. Throughout this provocative and uplifting book, writers describe their various experiences...
by Andrea Scarsi
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Seeds of Enlightenment is a practical enlightenment training that walks backward the path of mysticism and transmits the twelve essential qualities and attitudes that each enlightened person possesses, radiates, and shares.
It is structured in a comfortable and accessible way and suggests a pure work...
Moments of Mindfulness
Daily Inspiration
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This beautifully designed gift book contains many of the best-loved inspirational quotations and passages from Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh. Basic meditation instructions and messages of peace, love, insight, understanding, and compassion accompany two-color illustrations throughout, with blank pages...
Hermitage Among the Clouds
An Historical Novel of Fourteenth Century Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2001
Hermitage Among the Clouds tells the story of the fourteenth century Princess Amazing Jewel, the daughter of one of Vietnam's greatest historical Zen master kings. This beautifully written story expreses the suffering caused by war and conflict, the transformative potential of a commitment to practicing...
Peace Begins Here
Palestinians and Israelis Listening to Each Other
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2001
In this highly anticipated Buddhist perspective on resolving conflict, Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh demonstrates how a real peace process is based on spiritual,not political strength. Inspired by an ongoing Buddhist retreat project for Israelis and Palestinians, this book offers practical...
Keeping the Peace
Mindfulness and Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2005
*Keeping the Peacespeaks to all of us who work in difficult, people-oriented jobs and shows us how to turn environments that are often filled with anger, stress, and frustration into islands of peace. Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh creates a revolutionary definition of public service that includes all...
Just Use This Mind
Follow the Universal Truth to Oneness of Mind, Body and Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Here is a spiritual home that isn't about temples or traditions. It's a place in your own pure mind where you become the master of your own thoughts. When you learn to follow the path of Zen with diligence and right understanding, you can break though old patterns in your life and become enlightened-at peace in your body, your mind and your spirit.
Saltwater Buddha
A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
Fed up with teenage life in the suburbs, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. His journey is a coming-of-age saga that takes him from communes to monasteries, from the warm Pacific to the icy New York shore. Equal...
Buddha at the Apocalypse
Awakening from a Culture of Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010
Timely and audacious, Buddha at the Apocalypse challenges us to look directly at the devastating assumptions underlying the very mechanisms of the modern world - and offers a clarion call to awaken from a pervasive culture of destruction into a natural, sustainable, and sane peace. Kurt Spellmeyer...
The Third Turning of the Wheel
Wisdom of the Samdhinirmocana Sutra
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
In his previous book, Being Upright: Zen Meditation and the Bodhisattva Precepts, Reb Anderson Roshi described how we must become thoroughly grounded in conventional truth through the practice of compassion before we can receive the teachings of the ultimate truth. In The Third Turning of the Wheel,...
by Gregg Krech
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Gregg Krech opened new doors to self-reflection in his book, Naikan: Gratitude, Grace and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection. Now he draws on Eastern philosophy, Buddhism, Japanese Psychology, Zen, and Martial Arts to offer an approach to ACTION that goes beyond productivity and time management....
by Mario Poceski
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature explores the growth, makeup, and transformation of Chan (Zen) Buddhist literature in late medieval China. The volume analyzes the earliest extant records about the life, teachings, and legacy of Mazu Daoyi (709-788), the famous leader...
The Wisdom of Huineng, Chinese Buddhist Philosopher
The Platform Sutra and Other Translations
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
For a non-Chinese and non-Buddhist like me, Chu Dongweis version of Huineng comes as a revelation. Chus lucid prose and verse translation of the great sage in my view opens us to what ultimately we cannot know but must always seek: the understanding of the nature of reality and of the ground of beingwhat...