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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Buddhism > Zen Buddhism

Zen Sourcebook - Traditional Documents from China, Korea and Japan (Hardcover): Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo, Judith Roitman Zen Sourcebook - Traditional Documents from China, Korea and Japan (Hardcover)
Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo, Judith Roitman; Introduction by Paula Arai
R1,273 R1,157 Discovery Miles 11 570 Save R116 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Featuring a carefully selected collection of source documents, this tome includes traditional teaching tools from the Zen Buddhist traditions of China (Ch'an), Korea (Son), and Japan (Zen), including texts created by women. The selections provide both a good feel for the varieties of Zen and an experience of its common core. . . . The texts are experiential teachings and include storytelling, poetry, autobiographies, catechisms, calligraphy, paintings, and koans (paradoxical meditation questions that are intended to help aspirants transcend logical, linguistic limitations). Contextual commentary prefaces each text. Wade-Giles transliteration is used, although Pinyin, Korean, Japanese, and Sanskrit terms are linked in appendixes. An insightful introduction by Arai contributes a religious studies perspective. The bibliography references full translations of the selections. A thought-provoking discussion about the problems of translation is included. . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels." -- Choice

A Temporary Affair - Talks on Awakening and Zen (Paperback): David Radin A Temporary Affair - Talks on Awakening and Zen (Paperback)
David Radin
R307 Discovery Miles 3 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Minimalist Living - Using Minimalism to Declutter Your Lifestyle - Habits & Mindsets to Live More & Worry Less! (Paperback):... Minimalist Living - Using Minimalism to Declutter Your Lifestyle - Habits & Mindsets to Live More & Worry Less! (Paperback)
Jason Delucci
R493 R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Save R92 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Finding Zen in the Ordinary - Stories and Reflections (Paperback): Christopher Keevil Finding Zen in the Ordinary - Stories and Reflections (Paperback)
Christopher Keevil
R252 Discovery Miles 2 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Finding Zen in the Ordinary offers honest and thought-provoking spiritual insights drawn from daily-life experiences. The book includes forty-eight brief stories, prose poems, dialogues between Zen student and teacher, and reflections on moments of spiritual awakening. Written by Zen priest and teacher Christopher Keevil, this book presents readers with the chance to reflect on their own moments of spiritual insight and engenders in the reader an experience of clarity and presence.

The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo (Paperback): Kosho Nchiyama, Shohaku Okumura The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo (Paperback)
Kosho Nchiyama, Shohaku Okumura
R409 R308 Discovery Miles 3 080 Save R101 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Abandon your treasured delusions and hit the road with one of the most important Zen masters of twentieth-century Japan.
Eschewing the entrapments of vanity, power, and money, "Homeless" Kodo Sawaki Roshi refused to accept a permanent position as a temple abbot, despite repeated offers. Instead, he lived a traveling, "homeless" life, going from temple to temple, student to student, teaching and instructing and never allowing himself to stray from his chosen path. He is responsible for making Soto Zen available to the common people outside of monasteries.
His teachings are short, sharp, and powerful. Always clear, often funny, and sometimes uncomfortably close to home, they jolt us into awakening.
Kosho Uchiyama expands and explains his teacher's wisdom with his commentary. Trained in Western philosophy, he draws parallels between Zen teachings and the Bible, Descartes, and Pascal. Shohaku Okumura has also added his own commentary, grounding his teachers' power and sagacity for the contemporary, Western practitioner.
Experience the timeless, practical wisdom of three generations of Zen masters.

Just Bee! (Paperback): Nick J Neild Just Bee! (Paperback)
Nick J Neild; Illustrated by Christoph Neger; Edited by Gina Tang
R292 Discovery Miles 2 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mindfulness and Intimacy (Paperback): Ben Connelly Mindfulness and Intimacy (Paperback)
Ben Connelly
R393 R291 Discovery Miles 2 910 Save R102 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Spiritual Aberrations - Thoughts, illusions and aberrations on the path to spiritual awakening for Yogis and Buddhists.... Spiritual Aberrations - Thoughts, illusions and aberrations on the path to spiritual awakening for Yogis and Buddhists. (Paperback)
Shiva Bodhi
R200 Discovery Miles 2 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
For Nirvana - 108 Zen Sijo Poems (Paperback): Oh-Hyun Cho For Nirvana - 108 Zen Sijo Poems (Paperback)
Oh-Hyun Cho; Translated by Heinz Fenkl; Introduction by Kwon Youngmin
R647 R553 Discovery Miles 5 530 Save R94 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For Nirvana features exceptional examples of the poet Cho Oh-Hyun's award-winning work. Cho Oh-Hyun was born in Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province, Korea, and has lived in retreat in the mountains since becoming a novice monk at the age of seven. Writing under the Buddhist name Musan, he has composed hundreds of poems in seclusion, many in the sijo style, a relatively fixed syllabic poetic form similar to Japanese haiku and tanka. For Nirvana contains 108 Zen sijo poems (108 representing the number of klesas, or "defilements," that one must overcome to attain enlightenment). These transfixing works play with traditional religious and metaphysical themes and include a number of "story" sijo, a longer, more personal style that is one of Cho Oh-Hyun's major innovations. Kwon Youngmin, a leading scholar of sijo, provides a contextualizing introduction, and in his afterword, Heinz Insu Fenkl reflects on the unique challenges of translating the collection.

Asian Folk Religion and Cultural Interaction (Hardcover): Yoshihiro Nikaido Asian Folk Religion and Cultural Interaction (Hardcover)
Yoshihiro Nikaido
R1,719 Discovery Miles 17 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Story of Zen (Paperback): Richard Bryan McDaniel The Story of Zen (Paperback)
Richard Bryan McDaniel
R905 R789 Discovery Miles 7 890 Save R116 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Women in Korean Zen - Lives and Practices (Hardcover): Martine Batchelor Women in Korean Zen - Lives and Practices (Hardcover)
Martine Batchelor
R410 R345 Discovery Miles 3 450 Save R65 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Hara - The Vital Center of Man (Paperback, 4th Edition, New Edition): Karlfried Graf Durckheim Hara - The Vital Center of Man (Paperback, 4th Edition, New Edition)
Karlfried Graf Durckheim
R455 R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Save R43 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

EASTERN PHILOSOPHY "Hara is essential reading for all who inquire into the spiritual principles and practices that are fundamental to all wisdom traditions and natural healing professions." Don Stapleton, author of Self-Awakening Yoga When we speak of an individual's state, we are actually referring to something that transcends the duality of body and soul, something that reflects the entirety of a person's being. Because each of us is a unity of body and soul, there is no psychic structure or inner tension that is not reflected outwardly in the form and order of the body. When we find the physical center of the body we also find the psychological center of the soul. According to Zen masters, by correcting posture and breathing to balance this center, one can cultivate inner tranquillity and balance: the state called Hara. Karlfried Graf Durckheim shows the Western world how to overcome the physical and spiritual decay of modern life by adopting the age-old techniques of Japanese Zen masters. By leaving behind the "chest out-belly in" posture and attitude of the West and adopting the belly-centered posture and attitude of Hara, individuals can live a calm, grounded, and more balanced life. Included in this classic text are vital life force practices and translations of the wisdom teachings of three Japanese Zen masters. This book also explores how the practice of Hara emphasizes empirical learning and the cultivation of self-knowledge through the perfection of arts such as painting and archery. Karlfried Graf Durckheim (1896-1988) spent eight years in Japan before World War II and was a professor at the University of Kiel until Hitler's rise to power in 1933. In Japan he discovered ZenBuddhism in its various expressions and subsequently became a Western authority on the subject.

Wisdom of the East - The Buddha's Way of Virtue - A Translation of the Dhammapada from the Pali Text (Paperback): W D C... Wisdom of the East - The Buddha's Way of Virtue - A Translation of the Dhammapada from the Pali Text (Paperback)
W D C Wagiswara, K.J. Saunders
R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Records of the Transmission of the Lamp - Volume 6 (Books 22-26) Heirs of Tiantai Deshao, Congzhan, Yunmen et al. (Paperback):... Records of the Transmission of the Lamp - Volume 6 (Books 22-26) Heirs of Tiantai Deshao, Congzhan, Yunmen et al. (Paperback)
Daoyuan
R984 Discovery Miles 9 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Nothing Special - Living Zen (Paperback, New edition): Charlotte Joko Beck, Steve Smith Nothing Special - Living Zen (Paperback, New edition)
Charlotte Joko Beck, Steve Smith 1
R390 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Save R95 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Shobogenzo v. 1 - The True Dharma-eye Treasury (Hardcover): Dogen Shobogenzo v. 1 - The True Dharma-eye Treasury (Hardcover)
Dogen
R1,073 R957 Discovery Miles 9 570 Save R116 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Shobogenzo: The True Dharma-eye Treasury (Taisho No. 2582) is the masterwork of the thirteenth-century Zen master Eihei Dogen, founder of the Soto sect of Japanese Zen Buddhism. This reprint edition presents Volume I of the exemplary translation by Gudo Wafu Nishijima and Chodo Cross of the complete ninety-five-chapter edition of the ""Shobogenzo"", compiled by the Zen master Hangyo Kozen in the late seventeenth century.

Zen & Horseback Riding, 4th Edition - Applying the Principles of Posture, Breath and Awareness to Riding Horses (Paperback):... Zen & Horseback Riding, 4th Edition - Applying the Principles of Posture, Breath and Awareness to Riding Horses (Paperback)
Sally Swift; Tom Nagel
R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones - A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings (Paperback): Reps, Senzaki Zen Flesh, Zen Bones - A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings (Paperback)
Reps, Senzaki
R360 R286 Discovery Miles 2 860 Save R74 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"It has stayed with me for the last 30 years, a classic portraying Zen mind to our linear thinking." --Phil Jackson, Head Coach of the Chicago Bulls and author of Sacred Hoops Zen Flesh, Zen Bones offers a collection of accessible, primary Zen sources so that readers can contemplate the meaning of Zen for themselves. Within the pages, readers will find: 101 Zen Stories, a collection of tales that recount actual experiences of Chinese and Japanese Zen teachers over a period of more than five centuries The Gateless Gate, the famous thirteenth-century collection of Zen koans Ten Bulls, a twelfth century commentary on the stages of awareness leading to enlightenment Centering, a 4,000 year-old teaching from India that some consider to be the roots of Zen. When Zen Flesh, Zen Bones was published in 1957, it became an instant sensation with an entire generation of readers who were just beginning to experiment with Zen. Over the years it has inspired leading American Zen teachers, students, and practitioners. Its popularity is as high today as ever.

Hardcore Zen - Punk Rock, Monster Movies, and the Truth About Reality (Paperback): Brad Warner Hardcore Zen - Punk Rock, Monster Movies, and the Truth About Reality (Paperback)
Brad Warner
R395 R293 Discovery Miles 2 930 Save R102 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Blood-Soaked Buddha/Hard Earth Pascal (Paperback): Noah Cicero Blood-Soaked Buddha/Hard Earth Pascal (Paperback)
Noah Cicero
R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
What is Zen? (Paperback): Alan Watts What is Zen? (Paperback)
Alan Watts
R326 R302 Discovery Miles 3 020 Save R24 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Zen is not a theory, not a religion in the ordinary sense of the word, it is an experience, and a way of everyday life. The author examines Zen's religious roots, its influence on Eastern and Western culture, the transcendent moments of its practice, and some methods of meditation.

Most Intimate - A Zen Approach to Life's Challenges (Paperback): Pat Enkyo O'Hara Most Intimate - A Zen Approach to Life's Challenges (Paperback)
Pat Enkyo O'Hara; Foreword by Joan Halifax
R533 R430 Discovery Miles 4 300 Save R103 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

For Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara, intimacy is what Zen practice is all about: the realization of the essential lack of distinction between self and other that inevitably leads to wisdom and compassionate action. She approaches the practice of intimacy beginning at its most basic level - the intimacy with ourselves that is the essential first step. She then shows how to bring intimacy into our relationships with others, starting with those dearest to us and moving on to those who don't seem dear at all.

Bankei Zen - Translations from the Record of Bankei (Paperback): Yoshito Hakeda Bankei Zen - Translations from the Record of Bankei (Paperback)
Yoshito Hakeda; Translated by Peter Haskel; Foreword by Mary Farkas
R395 R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Save R38 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The eccentric Bankei has long been an underground hero in the world of Zen. At a time when Zen was becoming overly formalized in Japan, he stressed its relevance to everyday life, insisting on the importance of naturalness and spontaneity.

The Art of Stopping Time (Hardcover): Pedram Shojai The Art of Stopping Time (Hardcover)
Pedram Shojai 1
R309 R252 Discovery Miles 2 520 Save R57 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

As seen in the MAIL ON SUNDAY, THE DAILY MAIL, THE TELEGRAPH and as heard BBC RADIO 2 with Chris Evans. 'A lovely book. Offers a little lesson every day on how to be more mindful, to slow time down or stop time.' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2 --------------------------------------------------- A frantic world . . . or a frantic mind? The New York Times bestselling author Pedram Shojai reveals what it takes to stop time . . . Discover the deepest secrets of time and take control of your life. By following the 100-day Gong ritual - allocating a set amount of time each day, a 'Gong', to everyday tasks - you will not only find your mind is calmer and clearer but also that you have the space to accomplish what you want in life. Taoist Minister and New York Times bestselling author Pedram Shojai shows how the ancient spiritual practice of stopping time can be turned into a simple and effective life skill to help you feel less stressed, more rested and able to focus on what matters most. 'The Art of Stopping Time is a powerful book that will help you at this critical juncture in history, when time seems to disappear in an instant. I highly recommend it.' Daniel G. Amen, MD, Founder, Amen Clinics and author of Memory Rescue 'Who knew that the way to gain more time was actually to stop, be present, and dedicate time to specific activities' JJ Virgin, New York Times bestselling author of The Virgin Diet and Sugar Impact Diet

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