Zen category: 918 books
Bring Me the Rhinoceros
And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Bring Me the Rhinoceros is an unusual guide to happiness and a can opener for your thinking. For fifteen hundred years, Zen koans have been passed down through generations of masters, usually in private encounters between teacher and student. This book deftly retells more than a dozen traditional...
Song of Mind
Wisdom from the Zen Classic Xin Ming
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
"No words can explain enlightenment," says the seventh-century Zen classic Xin Ming, or "Song of Mind," yet, paradoxically, this poem is a masterpiece of expressing the inexpressible. In his commentary on it, Chan Master Sheng Yen takes a practical approach, opening up the language...
If You're Lucky, Your Heart Will Break
Field Notes from a Zen Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Using vignettes and anecdotes from his own life - as well as quotations drawn from sources as varied as the Bible, Yiddish aphorisms, and stand-up comedy - Zen teacher and Unitarian Universalist minister James Ishmael Ford shares the gifts won over his lifetime of full-hearted engagement with the...
Bearing Witness
A Zen Master's Lessons in Making Peace
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Zen practitioner and non-profit community developer Bernie Glassman offers powerful teaching stories that illustrate ways of making peace one moment at a time. Each chapter focuses on an event or person and demonstrates how a particular peacemaker vow is put into practice. Through these stories and Glassman's personal testimony we come to understand the essence of peacemaking.
by Joe Hyams
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
"A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action."--Samurai Maximum.
Under the guidance of such celebrated masters as Ed Parker and the immortal Bruce Lee, Joe Hyams vividly recounts his more than 25 years of experience in the martial arts. In his illuminating...
Time Surfing
The Zen Approach to Keeping Time on Your Side
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Zen monk and coach Paul Loomans is the creator of Time Surfing, a 7-step approach to help anyone create more time in their life.
“This book is for anyone who feels trapped by over-full, over-scheduled days. It explains how to escape the raging storms of busyness and find your way back to...
by Richard B. Clark, Seng-ts'an
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
"The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences."—Seng-ts'anThe Hsin-Hsin Ming, Verses on the Faith-Mind by Seng-ts'an, the third Chinese patriarch of Zen, is considered to be the first Chinese Zen document. Lucidly translated here by Richard B. Clark, it remains one of...
Square Sun, Square Moon
A Collection of Sweet Sour Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
This collection of Zen essays by the author of Zen Flesh, Zen Bones offers an enlightening perspective on a variety of topics.
From the introduction:
Not all of us can be exuberant travelers though we all dream of faraway places. Not all of us can sec the subliminal with a penetrating eye,...
Dongshan's Five Ranks
Keys to Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
The first in-depth English commentary on the Five Ranks—a core text of the Zen tradition that teaches what can't be taught—which contains new translations of all of the key texts of the Five Ranks cycle.
We imagine ourselves and the universe to be distinct, but within us glimmers the suspicion...
Single White Monk
Tales of Death, Failure, and Bad Sex (Although Not Necessarily in that Order)
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Think the life of a Zen monk is all serenity, peace, and austerity? Think again. Here, Shozan Jack Haubner gives an often-hilarious, always-candid account of what it’s really like behind those monastery walls. Haubner’s adventures include memories of his dysfunctional Midwestern family that drove...
Teachings of the Earth
Zen and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
According to Zen teaching, everything in the universe exists interdependently, so valuing the welfare of one being over another, or of humans over the planet, makes no sense at all. This teaching, which can empower us to care passionately about the earth and its future, is not only a Zen principle,...
by Jeffrey Broughton
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
Japanese Zen often implies that textual learning (gakumon) in Buddhism and personal experience (taiken) in Zen are separate, but the career and writings of the Chinese Tang dynasty Chan master Guifeng Zongmi (780-841) undermine this division. For the first time in English, Jeffrey Broughton presents...
Free Yourself of Everything
Radical Guidance in the Spirit of Zen and Christian Mysticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
This guide to meditation and spirituality draws on both Buddhist and Christian sources to present a unique path to enlightenment.
Intended for those who earnestly seek spiritual guidance, this book conveys, with clear structure and precise language, the deepest wisdom of eastern and western...
by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Poet-Philosopher and Zen Priest Tai Sheridan's 'Buddha in Blue Jeans' is an extremely short, simple, and straight forward universal guide to the practice of sitting quietly and being yourself, which is the same as being Buddha. Sitting quietly can teach many ways to accept life, meet...