The Chan Handbook: The Learner's Guide to Meditation is a must-read reference book on the principles and techniques of Chan Meditation. Chan is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that has been passed down directly from the Buddha through his lineage of Patriarchs to the present. The power of Chan Meditation has been taught to seekers of enlightenment in Asia for thousands of years. In this book, Chan Master YongHua reveals the extraordinary method of Chan Meditation, from basic stretches and sitting postures, to the fundamental principles of Buddhism. As a Buddhist monk who has practiced the rigorous techniques of Chan for 20 years, Master YongHua presents these ancient skills to the West, in an easy-to-follow format. The Chan Handbook is accessible to the casual reader, and yet it also contains practical and concrete instructions that will be of great value to the advanced practitioner. In addition, all people, regardless of their religious affiliation, can achieve personal benefit from Chan Meditation. Thus The Chan Handbook makes an excellent gift for anyone interested in meditation. "Meditation is a powerful technique for restoring your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance. Ultimately, meditation will help you unfold your inherent wisdom, enabling you to end suffering and attain enlightenment. And on a more basic level, you will develop greater focus and concentration, which will have an immediate and practical application to your life."

A rare and vivid narrative of a Buddhist nun's training and spiritual awakening. In this engagingly written account, Martine Batchelor relays the challenges a new ordinand faces in adapting to Buddhist monastic life: the spicy food, the rigorous daily schedule, the distinctive clothes and undergarments, and the cultural misunderstandings inevitable between a French woman and her Korean colleagues. She reveals as well the genuine pleasures that derive from solitude, meditative training, and communion with the deeply religious - whom the Buddhists call ""good friends."" Batchelor has also recorded the oral history/autobiography of her teacher, the eminent nun Son'gyong Sunim, leader of the Zen meditation hall at Naewonsa. It is a profoundly moving, often light-hearted story that offers insight into the challenges facing a woman on the path to enlightenment at the beginning of the twentieth century. Original English translations of eleven of Son'gyong Sunim's poems on Buddhist themes make a graceful and thought-provoking coda to the two women's narratives. Western readers only familiar with Buddhist ideas of female inferiority will be surprised by the degree of spiritual equality and authority enjoyed by nuns in Korea. While American writings on Buddhism increasingly emphasize the therapeutic, self-help, and comforting aspects of Buddhist thought, Batchelor's text offers a bracing and timely reminder of the strict discipline required in traditional Buddhism.

Compiled by a leading scholar of Chinese poetry, "Clouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown" is the first collection of Chan (Zen) poems to be situated within Chan thought and practice. Combined with exquisite paintings by Charles Chu, the anthology compellingly captures the ideological and literary nuances of works that were composed, paradoxically, to "say more by saying less," and creates an unparalleled experience for readers of all backgrounds.

"Clouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown" includes verse composed by monk-poets of the eighth to the seventeenth centuries. Their style ranges from the direct vernacular to the evocative and imagistic. Egan's faithful and elegant translations of poems by Han Shan, Guanxiu, and Qiji, among many others, do justice to their perceptions and insights, and his detailed notes and analyses unravel centuries of Chan metaphor and allusion. In these gems, monk-poets join mainstream ideas on poetic function to religious reflection and proselytizing, carving out a distinct genre that came to influence generations of poets, critics, and writers.

The simplicity of Chan poetry belies its complex ideology and sophisticated language, elements Egan vividly explicates in his religious and literary critique. His interpretive strategies enable a richer understanding of Mahayana Buddhism, Chan philosophy, and the principles of Chinese poetry.

En el budismo Zen, se habla del cruce a la otra ribera como metafora del Despertar. Este "cruce" hacia el encuentro con nuestra naturaleza propia (naturaleza Buda) es la esencia de nuestra practica de meditacion y su integracion con nuestro diario vivir. Esta obra es una compilacion de cartas dirigidas a estudiantes Zen en Argentina y Chile a lo largo de varios anos, alentandolos, apoyandolos y guiandolos en la practica. En este texto el Maestro Terragno usa el termino "Bodisatva" para referirse a todos nosotros como practicantes del Camino, sin embargo, su lectura puede ayudar a cualquier persona en su busqueda espiritual, sin importar sus creencias. Nacido en Chile, el Maestro Zen (Roshi) Daniel Terragno ha practicado el Zen por los ultimos veintiocho anos. Comenzo a ensenar el zen en 1995 recibiendo la Transmision del Dharma en 2001 de su maestro John Tarrant Roshi, en el linaje de la Sangha Diamante fundada por Robert Aitken Roshi. Actualmente vive y practica en Sebastopol, California, donde trabaja haciendo muebles y ensena en el Zendo Rocks & Clouds. Tambien ensena en Ohio, Argentina y en Chile.

This textbook included all contents of the Five Methodologies of Chinese Chan Meditation which written by Victor Chiang, and the information of International Chinese Buddhist Association and Global Chan Club . The rules of Global Chinese Chan Meditation Workshop are also included .

Explanatory on Sutra of Platform of Sixth Patriarch of Chan Sec of China for modern Buddhist and CEO

The outline of Master Zhi Yi's ( 538-597) Three Meditations, including: The Beginner's Meditation;The Uncertainty's Meditation; The Gradually Meditation .