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"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
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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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
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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
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Rescue 'Who knew that the way to gain more time was actually to
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