Zen category: 918 books

Đây là một quyển sách thực hành, một kim chỉ nam cho những ai muốn học về thiền quán Vipassana. Sách này ghi lại những bài giảng, lời chỉ dẫn của ông Goldstein dành cho một khóa tu ba mươi ngày. Trong đó có cả phần trả lời những thắc...

Chúng ta đều biết, người đầu tiên khơi mở nguồn thiền cho nhân loại là đức Phật Thích-ca Mâu-ni, bởi vì thiền vốn dĩ là một trong các pháp môn do ngài truyền dạy. Tuy nhiên, những gì mà chúng ta biết được hôm nay về thiền học còn...

If you haven’t yet met Archie the Alpaca now’s your chance.Prolific writer, social observer, grassiccino drinker, occasional dancer and loyal friend, Archie sees the world like no-one else. Gathered here are his thoughts, feelings, loves, hates and everything in between.From his remarks on the...

Awakening into Buddhahood is an invaluable eBook for all walks of life.  It tells us that each of us has the wisdom, awareness, virtue, kindness, compassion, love, power of the Buddha within and will help guide us to our True Self, ceaselessly pointing us back to what we are, and what we have always...

In Touching Peace, Thich Nhat Hanh expands the teachings on practicing the art of mindful living begun in the best selling Being Peace by giving specific, practical instructions on extending our meditation practice into our daily lives. The book reminds us to focus on what is refreshing and healing...

The Samurai Sword is the essential illustrated guide to the Japanese way of the sword. Japan's famous samurai warriors were more than just soldiers — they were adherents to a strict code of honor who respected the deeper, spiritual meaning of the way of the sword. To the samurai, battle was...

The Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue offers a complete annotated translation, the first into English, of a Chan Buddhist classic, the collected letters of the Southern Song Linji Chan teacher Dahui Zonggao (1089-1163). Addressed to forty scholar-officials, members of the elite class in Chinese society,...

The Buddhist approach to death can be of great benefit to people of all backgrounds—as has been demonstrated time and again in Joan Halifax’s decades of work with the dying and their caregivers. Inspired by traditional Buddhist teachings, her work is a source of wisdom for all those who are charged...

Within the common destiny is the individual destiny. So it is that through the telling of one Chinese peasant woman's life, a vivid vision of Chinese history and culture is illuminated. Over the course of two years, Ida Pruitt—a bicultural social worker, writer, and contributor to Sino-American...

The beguiling story of the Minaguchi-ya, an ancient inn on the Tokaido Road, founded on the eve of the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate. Travellers and guests flow into and past the inn — warriors on the march, lovers fleeing to a new life, pilgrims on their merry expeditions, great men going...

Brian Haycock was a cabdriver--who happened to be a Buddhist. During the course of his career as a cabdriver he learned that each fare provided an opportunity to learn the life lessons of the Buddha. So hop in and buckle up; well be making several stops on this trip. Were off on our journey to self-discovery...

Over the course of nineteen essays, Alan Watts ruminates on the philosophy of nature, ecology, aesthetics, religion, and metaphysics. Assembled in the form of a “mountain journal,” written during a retreat in the foothills of Mount Tamalpais, CA, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown is Watts’s...

The japanese Noh drama by the Master Zeami Motokiyo about the Buddhist priest Rensei and the warrior of the Taira Clan Atsumori. The story of redention of the warrior Kumagai Jiro Naozane that killed the young Atsumori. One of the most popular and touching Zeami's Noh drama inspired by "The...

Reiki master and best-selling author Diane Stein has been a dedicated hands-on healer since 1988. Stein believes strongly that this powerful healing art, once a closely guarded secret tradition, should be accessible and available to all. Since she began teaching in 1990, Stein has initiated thousands...