Instant Zen

Author : Anonim
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556431937

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Instant Zen by Anonim Pdf

Instant Zen presents the teachings of Foyan, a twelfth-century Chinese Zen master recognized as one of the greatest masters of the Song dynasty Zen renaissance in China. Returning to the uncomplicated genuineness of the original and classical Zen masters, Foyan offers many simple exercises in attention and thought designed to lead to the awakening of Zen insight into the real nature of the self. These succinct teachings emphasize independence and autonomy, and show us how to open our own eyes and stand on our own two feet, to see directly without delusion and act on truth without confusion. Translator Thomas Cleary provides an incisive introduction and extensive references from traditional Zen sources, placing the work in both historical and contemporary contexts. Newcomers to Zen will find this book a useful and sophisticated introduction to authentic inner Zen practices from an impeccable source, without cultural exoticism or religious cultism. Instant Zen sheds new light on this vital tradition, making available the immediacy of Zen practice and unveiling our innate potential for conscious awakening.

Author : Garr Reynolds
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780321601896

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Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds Pdf

FOREWORD BY GUY KAWASAKI Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the Net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making "slide presentations" in today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations.

Author : Jim McMullan,Michael Levin
Publisher : Tuttle Pub
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0804830169

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Instant Zen by Jim McMullan,Michael Levin Pdf

Blending profound advice and I-Ching-like wisdom, Instant Zen is a creatively designed book that offers hours of insight and entertainment to readers. In this pocket-sized book of knowledge, authors Jim McMullan and Michael Levin have collected over 200 inspired sayings from more than 50 Zen masters, philosophers, and teachers -- from Buddha to Lao Tzu -- to lead readers on their journey to self-discovery and reflection. Presented on split pages, the reader -- simply by aligning the top and bottom page -- can ponder 10,000 original and enlightening phrases. Designed to lift your mind to higher states of consciousness, Instant Zen is a hands-on guide to self-discovery and awareness, providing more than thirty years of daily sayings for meditation practice, yoga, and basic life lessons.

Author : Trevor Leggett
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Koan
ISBN : 0415284651

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Samurai Zen by Trevor Leggett Pdf

100 of the rare riddles representing the core spiritual discipline of Japan's ancient samurai tradition, dating from the thirteenth-century records of Japan's Kamakura temples.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004213197

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Performing Japan by Anonim Pdf

Timing & Time Perception Review is the forum for all psychophysical, neuroimaging, pharmacological, computational, and theoretical advances on the topic of timing and time perception in humans and other animals. Timing & Time Perception Review has a multidisciplinary approach to the synergy of: Neuroscience and Philosophy for understanding the concept of time, Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence for adapting basic research to artificial agents, Psychiatry, Neurology, Behavioral and Computational Sciences for neuro-rehabilitation and modeling of the disordered brain, to name just a few.

Author : Stephen Mitchell
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780802195470

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Dropping Ashes on the Buddha by Stephen Mitchell Pdf

The classic guide for Zen students pursuing the true way. “Somebody comes into the Zen center with a lighted cigarette, walks up to the Buddha-statue, blows smoke in its face and drops ashes on its lap. You are standing there. What can you do?” This is a problem that Zen Master Seung Sahn was fond of posing to his American students who attended his Zen centers. Dropping Ashes on the Buddha is a delightful, irreverent, and often hilariously funny living record of the dialogue between Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn and his American students. Consisting of dialogues, stories, formal Zen interviews, Dharma speeches, and letters using the Zen Master’s actual words in spontaneous, living interaction, this book is a fresh presentation of the Zen teaching method of “instant dialogue” between Master and student which, through the use of astonishment and paradox, leads to an understanding of ultimate reality.

Author : Thomas Cleary
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781609255640

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The Ecstasy of Enlightenment by Thomas Cleary Pdf

The Ecstasy of Enlightenment is an inside look at the spiritual world of Tantra--one of the most sophisticated, alluring, and controversial forms of Buddhism. Cleary unlocks the mysteries of the Carya-Giti, a collections of teachings by more than twenty famous Siddhas, or Tantric adepts, who lived during the illustrius Pala dynasty of old Bengal. These teachings emanate from one of the most dynamic sources of international Buddhism, at the height of its religious development, and as such, they are completely nonsectarian. Particularly noteworth is Cleary's demonstration of the parallels between Tantric Buddhism in Old Bengal and the original Zen Buddhism of China.

Author : Robert M. Pirsig
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0606039600

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig Pdf

"With a new introduction by the author"--Jacket.

Author : David N. PERKINS,David N Perkins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780674042032

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The Mind's Best Work by David N. PERKINS,David N Perkins Pdf

Over the years, tales about the creative process have flourished-tales of sudden insight and superior intelligence and personal eccentricity. Coleridge claimed that he wrote "Kubla Khan" in one sitting after an opium-induced dream. Poe declared that his "Raven" was worked out "with the precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem." D. N. Perkins discusses the creative episodes of Beethoven, Mozart, Picasso, and others in this exploration of the creative process in the arts, sciences, and everyday life. Table of Contents: A Parable 1. Witnesses to Invention 2. Creative Moments 3. Ways of the Mind 4. Critical Moments 5. Searching For 6. Plans Down Deep 7. Plans Up Front 8. Lives of Inquiry 9. Having It 10. The Shape of Making Notes Sources Index Reviews of this book: A delightful book, easy to read, amusing and jammed with intriguing "personal experiments," puzzles for the reader that offer insights into creative thinking. It is a valuable book because it summarizes well the results of recent investigations and effectively debunks a variety of cherished myths... Read the book for fun. Read it to find out what psychologists are up to. --New York Times Book Review Reviews of this book: The Mind's Best Work [is] a guided tour of the new psychology of creative thinking... Perkins belongs in that rare company of Lewis Thomas and other popularizers of science who combine a lively style, playful wit and discriminating scholarship. --Newsday Reviews of this book: A survey of scientific research that's also a work of playful wit. --Newsweek

Author : John Daido Loori
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780307417558

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The Zen of Creativity by John Daido Loori Pdf

For many of us, the return of Zen conjures up images of rock gardens and gently flowing waterfalls. We think of mindfulness and meditation, immersion in a state of being where meaning is found through simplicity. Zen lore has been absorbed by Western practitioners and pop culture alike, yet there is a specific area of this ancient tradition that hasn’t been fully explored in the West. Now, in The Zen of Creativity, American Zen master John Daido Loori presents a book that taps the principles of the Zen arts and aesthetic as a means to unlock creativity and find freedom in the various dimensions of our existence. Loori dissolves the barriers between art and spirituality, opening up the possibility of meeting life with spontaneity, grace, and peace. Zen Buddhism is steeped in the arts. In spiritual ways, calligraphy, poetry, painting, the tea ceremony, and flower arranging can point us toward our essential, boundless nature. Brilliantly interpreting the teachings of the artless arts, Loori illuminates various elements that awaken our creativity, among them still point, the center of each moment that focuses on the tranquility within; simplicity, in which the creative process is uncluttered and unlimited, like a cloudless sky; spontaneity, a way to navigate through life without preconceptions, with a freshness in which everything becomes new; mystery, a sense of trust in the unknown; creative feedback, the systematic use of an audience to receive noncritical input about our art; art koans, exercises based on paradoxical questions that can be resolved only through artistic expression. Loori shows how these elements interpenetrate and function not only in art, but in all our endeavors. Beautifully illustrated and punctuated with poems and reflections from Loori’s own spiritual journey, The Zen of Creativity presents a multilayered, bottomless source of insight into our creativity. Appealing equally to spiritual seekers, artists, and veteran Buddhist practitioners, this book is perfect for those wishing to discover new means of self-awareness and expression—and to restore equanimity and freedom amid the vicissitudes of our lives.

Author : Huihai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015005583581

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The Zen Teaching of Instantaneous Awakening by Huihai Pdf

A complete translation of the teaching of the Chinese Ch'an Master Hui Hai by Blofeld, this moment of truth and awakening and its 8th-century message are universal and timeless.

Author : Bankei
Publisher : North Point Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780374601263

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Unborn by Bankei Pdf

In 1633, at age eleven, Bankei Yotaku was banished from his family's home because of his consuming engagement with the Confucian texts that all schoolboys were required to copy and recite. Using a hut in the nearby hills, he wrote the word Shugyo-an, or "practice hermitage," on a plank of wood, propped it up beside the entrance, and settled down to devote himself to his own clarification of "bright virtue." He finally turned to Zen and, after fourteen years of incredible hardship, achieved a decisive enlightenment, whereupon the Rinzai priest traveled unceasingly to the temples and monasteries of Japan, sharing what he'd learned. "What I teach in these talks of mine is the Unborn Buddha-mind of illuminative wisdom, nothing else. Everyone is endowed with this Buddha-mind, only they don't know it." Casting aside the traditional aristocratic style of his contemporaries, he offered his teachings in the common language of the people. His style recalls the genius and simplicity of the great Chinese Zen masters of the T'ang dynasty. This revised and expanded edition contains many talks and dialogues not included in the original 1984 volume.

Author : Shunryu Suzuki
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611808414

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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki Pdf

Named one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century (Spirituality & Practice) A 50th Anniversary edition of the bestselling Zen classic on meditation, maintaining a curious and open mind, and living with simplicity. "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. In a single stroke, the simple sentence cuts through the pervasive tendency students have of getting so close to Zen as to completely miss what it's all about. It is an instant teaching on the first page--and that's just the beginning. In the fifty years since its original publication, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind has become one of the great modern spiritual classics, much beloved, much reread, and much recommended as the best first book to read on Zen. Suzuki Roshi presents the basics--from the details of posture and breathing in zazen to the perception of nonduality--in a way that is not only remarkably clear, but that also resonates with the joy of insight from the first to the last page.

Author : Carmen Blacker
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1873410921

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Collected Writings of Carmen Blacker by Carmen Blacker Pdf

Carmen Blacker's writings on Japan focus on religion, myth and folklore.

Author : edmund routledge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555045853

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every boy's annual by edmund routledge Pdf