Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Buddhism - Zen (see also Philosophy - Zen)

Since Thich Nhat Hanh's exile from his native Vietnam in 1966, this Zen Buddhist monk has gone on to become one of the most influential and beloved spiritual masters of our age. The seeming simplicity of his words belies the power of this teaching to touch the heart and mind and to inspire spiritual practice. These selections, taken from his many published works, together make up a concise introduction to all his major themes and distill his teachings on the transformation of individuals,...

Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark examines the issue of whether enlightenment in Zen Buddhism is sudden or gradual--that is, something intrinsic to the mind that is achieved in a sudden flash of insight or something extrinsic to it that must be developed through a sequential series of practices. This "sudden/gradual issue" was one of the crucial debates that helped forge the Zen school in East Asia, and the Korean Zen master Chinul's (1158-1210) magnum opus, Excerpts, offers one of the most thorough treatments of it in all of premodern Buddhist literature. According to Chinul's analysis,...

All the strategies in the world will not work if you're too tired, stressed out, or overwhelmed by all the work and information that's coming at you.

When your stress levels are tremendous or energy levels are at rock bottom, it can be difficult to maintain any kind of discipline. You just want to be lazy and eventually leads to procrastination.

While it is impossible to completely do away with stress, we can learn to deal with them mindfully by practicing Zen.

What can you expect to benefit:

Reduce stress and anxiety

• Stress and anxiety are natural part...

A modern classic, now in a new expanded edition. In the tradition of the great koan collections and the records of ancient masters, Robert Aitken distills a lifetime of teaching down to its essence. Intriguing and deceptively simple, Zen Master Raven is a brilliant encapsulation of Zen in over a hundred koan-like encounters alongside many charming illustrations. Featuring curious beginners like Mallard and Mole and profound teachers like Brown Bear, Moose Roshi, and Zen...

Long Strange Journey presents the first critical analysis of visual objects and discourses that animate Zen art modernism and its legacies, with particular emphasis on the postwar "Zen boom." Since the late nineteenth century, Zen and Zen art have emerged as globally familiar terms associated with a spectrum of practices, beliefs, works of visual art, aesthetic concepts, commercial products, and modes of self-fashioning. They have also been at the center of fiery public disputes that have erupted along national, denominational, racial-ethnic, class, and intellectual lines. Neither stable...

• The Origins of the Practice: What started Zen Buddhism, and how is it still being practiced today? What are the fundamental beliefs at the center of Zen, and how does a beginner start to practice it? Who was Buddha, and why did this man have such a huge impact on the world?
• The Foundations of Buddhism:...

Famously insightful and famously complex, Eihei Dogen's writings have been studied and puzzled over for hundreds of years. In Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom, Kosho Uchiyama, beloved twentieth-century Zen teacher addresses himself head-on to unpacking Dogen's wisdom from three fascicles (or chapters) of his monumental Shobogenzo for a modern audience.

The fascicles presented here from...

• What is Zen Meditation?
• Getting Started with Zazen
• Solitary Practice
• Meditating if Sitting Just...

• Buddhism, in the World
• Prince Siddhartha Gautama
• ...

• Pursuit of Happiness
• What is Happiness?
• Putting Your House in Order
• Reaching Out
• Courage Under...