Zen Without Zen Masters

Author : Camden Benares
Publisher : New Falcon Publications
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 094140434X

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Zen Without Zen Masters by Camden Benares Pdf

Zen Without Zen Master is the first-and still the best-collection of truly contemporary Zen parables. For the novice, Zen Without Zen Masters is an outstanding introduction to the baffling world of meditation, Eastern thought and the galaxy of philosophies that make up the expanding horizon of human awareness. For the veteran, Benares integrates the "inner quest" with the experience of daily life. And if that wasn't enough, the section on Meditations and Exercises focuses the inner experience into an accessible form. Marked by clarity and simplicity, they demystify the growth process through practical application.

Author : Brad Warner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781614293163

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Hardcore Zen by Brad Warner Pdf

Zen, plain and simple, with no BS. This is not your typical Zen book. Brad Warner, a young punk who grew up to be a Zen master, spares no one. This bold new approach to the "Why?" of Zen Buddhism is as strongly grounded in the tradition of Zen as it is utterly revolutionary. Warner's voice is hilarious, and he calls on the wisdom of everyone from punk and pop culture icons to the Buddha himself to make sure his points come through loud and clear. As it prods readers to question everything, Hardcore Zen is both an approach and a departure, leaving behind the soft and lyrical for the gritty and stark perspective of a new generation. This new edition will feature an afterword from the author.

Author : Zhaozhou (Shi)
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0761989854

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The Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu by Zhaozhou (Shi) Pdf

The first full English translation gives the odd, outrageous, and illuminating replies of this founding Zen (Ch'an) master from North China to the questions of 8th and 9th century Buddhist monks. It is said of Joshu that 'his lips emitted light, ' evoking clearly his own experience and enlightenment. His teachings are a keynote in the official koan of Zen

Author : Richard Bryan McDaniel
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781462910502

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Zen Masters Of China by Richard Bryan McDaniel Pdf

Zen Masters of China presents more than 300 traditional Zen stories and koans, far more than any other collection. Retelling them in their proper place in Zen's historical journey through Buddhist Chinese culture, it also tells a larger story: how, in taking the first step east from India to China, Buddhism began to be Zen. The stories of Zen are unlike any other writing, religious or otherwise. Used for centuries by Zen teachers as aids to bring about or deepen the experience of awakening, they have a freshness that goes beyond religious practice and a mystery and authenticity that appeal to a wide range of readers. Placed in chronological order, these stories tell the story of Zen itself, how it traveled from West to East with each Zen master to the next, but also how it was transformed in that journey, from an Indian practice to something different in Chinese Buddhism (Ch'an) and then more different still in Japan (Zen). The fact that its transmission was so human, from teacher to student in a long chain from West to East, meant that the cultures it passed through inevitably changed it. Zen Masters of China is first and foremost a collection of mind-bending Zen stories and their wisdom. More than that, without academic pretensions or baggage, it recounts the genealogy of Zen Buddhism in China and, through koan and story, illuminates how Zen became what it is today.

Author : John Stevens
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Arte japonés
ISBN : UVA:X002443968

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Three Zen Masters by John Stevens Pdf

Author : Reginald Horace Blyth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Zen Buddhism
ISBN : UVA:X030153234

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Games Zen Masters Play by Reginald Horace Blyth Pdf

Author : Barbara Verkuilen,Aaron Gilmore
Publisher : Firethroat Press LLC
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780983097204

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The Tale of Zen Master Bho Li by Barbara Verkuilen,Aaron Gilmore Pdf

"The Tale of Zen Master Bho Li is the story of an eight-year-old orphan who becomes a beloved Zen Master. Meet the cast of memorable companions who assist him on his captivating life's journey: The Firethroat - an exotic little bird that saves him from a life threatening circumstance ; Soyu Sei - the Dangerous Granny whose wise and tender guidance civilizes the feral child he'd become without taming his wild heart ; Master Wu - abbot of Silent Thunder Zen Monastery, whose successor he would become ; and Master Bho Li's three most problematic disciples: Sei Wot, Noh Hui, and Wai Mi, from each of whom he learns an important lesson.

Author : James Ishmael Ford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780861715091

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Zen Master Who? by James Ishmael Ford Pdf

Surprisingly little has been written about how Zen came to North America. "Zen Master Who?" does that and much more. Author James Ishmael Ford, a renowned Zen master in two lineages, traces the tradition's history in Asia, looking at some of its most important figures -- the Buddha himself, and the handful of Indian, Chinese, and Japanese masters who gave the Zen school its shape. It also outlines the challenges that occurred as Zen became integrated into western consciousness, and the state of Zen in North America today. The author includes profiles of modern Zen teachers and institutions, including D. T. Suzuki and Alan Watts, and such topics as the emergence of liberal Buddhism, and Christians, Jews, and Zen. This engaging, accessible book is aimed at anyone interested in this tradition but who may not know how to start. Most importantly, it clarifies a great and ancient tradition for the contemporary seeker.

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-29
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781429944007

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Mystics and Zen Masters by Thomas Merton Pdf

Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts-early monasticism, Russian Orthodox spirituality, the Shakers, and Zen Buddhism-with characteristic Western directness. Merton not only studied these religions from the outside but grasped them by empathy and living participation from within. "All these studies," wrote Merton, "are united by one central concern: to understand various ways in which men of different traditions have conceived the meaning and method of the 'way' which leads to the highest levels of religious or of metaphysical awareness."

Author : Norman Fischer
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834842144

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The World Could Be Otherwise by Norman Fischer Pdf

An imaginative approach to spiritual practice in difficult times, through the Buddhist teaching of the six paramitas or "perfections"—qualities that lead to kindness, wisdom, and an awakened life. In frightening times, we wish the world could be otherwise. With a touch of imagination, it can be. Imagination helps us see what’s hidden, and it shape-shifts reality’s roiling twisting waves. In this inspiring reframe of a classic Buddhist teaching, Zen teacher Norman Fischer writes that the paramitas, or “six perfections”—generosity, ethical conduct, patience, joyful effort, meditation, and understanding—can help us reconfigure the world we live in. Ranging from our everyday concerns about relationships, ethics, and consumption to our artistic inspirations and broadest human yearnings, Fischer depicts imaginative spiritual practice as a necessary resource for our troubled times.

Author : Jundo Cohen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614296461

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The Zen Master's Dance by Jundo Cohen Pdf

Zen Master's Dance makes some of Zen’s subtlest teaching deeply personal and freshly accessible. Eihei Dogen—the thirteenth-century Japanese Zen Master of peerless depth and subtlety—heard the music of the universe that sounds as all events and places, people, things, and spaces. He experienced reality as a great dance moving through time, coming to life in the thoughts and acts of all beings. It is a most special dance, the dance that the whole of reality is dancing, with nothing left out. All beings are dancing, and reality is dancing as all beings. In The Zen Master’s Dance, Jundo Cohen takes us deep into the mind of Master Dogen—and shows us how to join in the great and intimate dance of the universe. Through fresh translations and sparkling teaching, Cohen opens up for us a new way to read one of Buddhism’s most remarkable spiritual geniuses.

Author : Steven Heine,Dale Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199710089

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Zen Masters by Steven Heine,Dale Wright Pdf

Extending their successful series of collections on Zen Buddhism, Heine and Wright present a fifth volume, on what may be the most important topic of all - Zen Masters. Following two volumes on Zen literature (Zen Classics and The Zen Canon) and two volumes on Zen practice (The Koan and Zen Ritual) they now propose a volume on the most significant product of the Zen tradition - the Zen masters who have made this kind of Buddhism the most renowned in the world by emphasizing the role of eminent spiritual leaders and their function in establishing centers, forging lineages, and creating literature and art. Zen masters in China, and later in Korea and Japan, were among the cultural leaders of their times. Stories about their comportment and powers circulated widely throughout East Asia. In this volume ten leading Zen scholars focus on the image of the Zen master as it has been projected over the last millennium by the classic literature of this tradition. Each chapter looks at a single prominent master. Authors assess the master's personality and charisma, his reported behavior and comportment, his relationships with teachers, rivals and disciplines, lines of transmission, primary teachings, the practices he emphasized, sayings and catch-phrases associated with him, his historical and social context, representations and icons, and enduring influences.

Author : Jeff Bridges,Bernie Glassman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781101600757

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The Dude and the Zen Master by Jeff Bridges,Bernie Glassman Pdf

The perfect gift for fans of The Big Lebowski, Jeff Bridges's "The Dude", and anyone who could use more Zen in their lives. Zen Master Bernie Glassman compares Jeff Bridges’s iconic role in The Big Lebowski to a Lamed-Vavnik: one of the men in Jewish mysticism who are “simple and unassuming,” and “so good that on account of them God lets the world go on.” Jeff puts it another way. “The wonderful thing about the Dude is that he’d always rather hug it out than slug it out.” For more than a decade, Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges and his Buddhist teacher, renowned Roshi Bernie Glassman, have been close friends. Inspiring and often hilarious, The Dude and the Zen Master captures their freewheeling dialogue and remarkable humanism in a book that reminds us of the importance of doing good in a difficult world.

Author : Irmgard Schloegl
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0811206106

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The Wisdom of the Zen Masters by Irmgard Schloegl Pdf

Companion volume to Thomas Merton's The wisdom of the desert and Geoffrey Parriner's The wisdom of the forest.

Author : Bernard Glassman,Rick Fields
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780307532602

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Instructions to the Cook by Bernard Glassman,Rick Fields Pdf

Instructions To The Cook is a distillation of Zen wisdom that can be used equally well as a manual on business or spiritual practice, cooking or life. The hardcover edition was featured in every major Buddhist magazine. "Be nourished and inspired! Magnificent work!"--Jon Kabat-Zinn.