Zen category: 918 books
Complete Poison Blossoms from a Thicket of Thorn
The Zen Records of Hakuin Ekaku
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Following his translation of just over half the original text in 2014, Norman Waddell presents the complete teaching record of Zen master Hakuin, now available in English with extensive explanations, notes, and even the wry, helpful comments that students attending Hakuin’s lectures inscribed in...
Dialogues in a Dream
The Life and Zen Teaching of Muso Soseki
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Drawing on his encyclopaedic knowledge, one of the most famous masters in the history of Zen leads us on a grand tour of Buddhist theology in all its timeless relevance.
Muso Soseki, the renowned fourteenth century Zen master, is today most known for developing the art of traditional Japanese...
Untrain Your Parrot
And Other No-nonsense Instructions on the Path of Zen
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
This book offers exercises, instructions, jokes, stories, pithy quotes, and—most of all—encouragement to anyone interested in exploring Zen but who may find traditional presentations severe or intimidating. Hamilton writes with an easygoing, friendly style that invites readers of all backgrounds...
by Ernest Cadorin
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Think Zen is soft music and scented candles? This absolutely fantastic book turns up the lights and illuminates some of the most profound aspects of the ancient philosophy. Drawing on decades of experience in Zen and the martial arts, Ernest Cadorin explains the principles and practices of Zen through...
by John Daido Loori
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
In this treasury of Zen wisdom based on his talks, the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt. Tremper, New York, explores the eight areas of study that are the focus for training in his community: meditation, study with the teacher, liturgy, art practice, body practice, the study of scriptures, work...
by Barbara Barone
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Questo manuale è dedicato a chi si avvicina per la prima volta all'affascinante cultura ZEN e a tutto ciò che ne concerne, relativamente alla pratica e ai vari riferimenti culturali.
Il suo taglio è molto semplice e godibile, accessibile a tutti, con uno stile leggero, ironico, divertente...
by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
The essence of Zen experience lies beyond understanding. Zen is discovered in silence and stillness. The Tree Sun Star meditation is a way of entering your body and becoming one with yourself, the world, and the cosmos. Tai Sheridan is the international best selling Zen author of Buddha in Blue Jeans.
Everything Is the Way
Ordinary Mind Zen
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
These days, when Zen has become a kind of shorthand for anything that’s enigmatic or aesthetically spare, it’s refreshing be reminded that Zen is at heart a practice for waking up from the dream we inhabit—in order to free ourselves from the suffering the dream imposes on us. Elihu Genmyo Smith’s...
Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom
Three Fascicles from Shobogenzo with Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Insightful commentary on a beloved ancient philosopher of Zen by a beloved contemporary master of Zen.
Famously insightful and famously complex, Eihei Dogen’s writings have been studied and puzzled over for hundreds of years. In Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom, Kosho Uchiyama, beloved twentieth-century...
Zen Miracles
Finding Peace in an Insane World
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
"This wonderful book brings East and West--and ancient and modern worlds--together and provides profound wisdom and guidance for anyone struggling with stress, anxiety, anger, fear, or loneliness. Beautifully written, funny, warm, and filled with unusual, wonderful exercises. A real miracle."--Rabbi...
Opening a Mountain
Kōans of the Zen Masters
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2004
With the growing popularity of Zen Buddhism in the West, virtually everyone knows, or thinks they know, what a koan is: a brief and baffling question or statement that cannot be solved by the logical mind and which, after sustained concentration, can lead to sudden enlightenment. But the truth about...
by Andrea Scarsi
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Enlightenment, a common term in the Zen world, is the release of all the synapses, that floating free give the sensation of the opening of the thousand petals of the lotus flower of divine consciousness. Zen is famous for being weird, sharp, and sometimes violent. Its funny stories, seemingly meaningless...
The Hazy Moon of Enlightenment
Part of the On Zen Practice collection
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The Hazy Moon of Enlightenment takes the reader to the next level of Zen practice, exploring some of the more subtle and sophisticated topics in Zen.
The first two parts of the book explore enlightenment and delusion: What is nature of enlightenement? What does it mean to describe enlightenment...
Shobogenzo Band 1
Die Schatzkammer des wahren Dharma-Auges, Band 1: Kap. 1-21
Language: German
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Meister Dogens Shobogenzo ist eine der wichtigsten und tiefgründigsten Schriften des Zen und sicher auch des gesamten Buddhismus. Zudem ist es zweifellos das philosophisch am besten begründete Werk, das je von einem Zen-Meister geschrieben wurde. Es wurde von Meister Dogen in der Zeit von 1231 bis...