Zen

• Broken Angels
  For one woman, Nancye O'Reilly, this shocking path of events is real. Such tragedies would have destroyed a lesser woman, but Nancye took control of her life and made some crucial decisions to improve her lot and that of her two remaining sons. As a result of her extraordinary experiences, she is n...
• Zen Meditation Balls
  Zen Meditation Balls are a welcome addition to a frazzled world! Long considered a mainstream Eastern practice, meditation has experienced an unprecedented growth in the West, with millions of us practicing meditations for its physical, mental and spiritual benefits. Our Zen Meditation Balls are a ...
• Zen Wisdom
  Illuminations are a unique new format from Running Press Miniature Editions. These beautiful keepsake light-boxes shine from the inside out to display five exquisite, interchangeable images. The transparencies are illuminated by a battery-operated light, creating a gorgeous glow for an inspirationa...
• Wanting Enlightenment is a Big Mistake
  Wanting Enlightenment Is a Big Mistake presents never-before published teaching stories by one of the most important Zen masters of our time. Born in Korea, Seung Sahn came to the United States in 1972 and soon established the Kwan Um School of Zen, with centres in Providence, Cambridge, New Haven,...
• The Essence of ZEN
  Zen is often considered difficult. This is a serious misunderstanding, says Sekkei Harada, a Teaching Master from Hosshin-ji, a Zen temple in central Japan. In this collection of talks on Zen that were given in the United States and Germany. Harada sets out to explain, in plain and lucid language, ...
• The Flowing Bridge
  Koans such as What is the sound of one hand clapping? have become part of everyday speech, yet those who encounter them while exploring Zen practice often find them utterly baffling. This book offers valuable guidance on how to work with some of the beginning koans, revealing an uncommon depth of i...
• One Hundred Days of Solitude
  In the middle of winter, Jane Dobisz arrives at a lonely, primitive cabin armed with nothing but modest food supplies and an intensely regimented daily schedule that she thumbtacks to the wall. 3: 15 A.M. Wake Up. 3: 20 300 Bows. 4: 00 Ma. 4: 15 Sitting. 4: 45 Walking. And so it goes, for 100 days....
• The Platform Sutra
  The Platform Sutra occupies a central place in Zen (Ch'an) Buddhist instruction for students and spiritual seekers worldwide. It is often linked with The Heart Sutra and The Diamond Sutra to form a trio of texts that have been revered and studied for centuries. However, unlike the other sutras, whi...
• Waking Up to What You Do
  Life is rising up to meet us at every moment. The question is: Are we there to meet it or not? Diane Rizzetto presents a simple but supremely effective practice for meeting every moment of our lives with mindfulness, using the Zen precepts as tools to develop a keen awareness of the motivations beh...
• Zen Brushwork
  Section one covers the basics (history, tools and posture) and presents a unique yoga-like warm-up to establish the proper mental attitude and release creative energies. Next, the power of the brushed line is diagnosed and practised. What makes a good line or a bad one, an expressive effort or an u...
• Zen for Beginners
  Zen from its foundation in China of the 6th Century AD, has always been more than a religion. It is an intriguing system of principles and practice designed to give each individual the experience of eternity in a split second, the knowledge of divinity in every living thing. To create a book about ...
• Zen Guitar
  Offering a contemplative approach to playing the guitar, this book covers all levels of experience from professional musicians and amateur guitar players to uninitiated music lovers. The author offers his own experiences with music to show how to rediscover harmony and become open to Zen awareness....
• ZEN Master Who?
  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 h...
• Everyday Zen
  In Everyday Zen, author Stephanie Russell states, Zen mind sees daily life as the main vehicle for higher awareness. Everyday Zen teaches you how to incorporate the principles of Zen into your daily routine. You must be present in the moment and be willing to accept change and let go of tangible it...
• The Zen Book
  Change the way you look at life....
• Zen's Chinese Heritage
  Spanning 25 generations of enlightened teachers, this book is a broad survey of the prose and poetry of the Zen ancients, drawing on new and previously untranslated passages of core teachings....
• Art of Just Sitting
  This unprecedented and unparalleled volume offers essential guidance - from the most influential Buddhist masters, and from many of modern Zens preeminent teachers - on one of Zens two most central practices. The second edition contains three new translations by renowned scholar-practitioners. Esse...
• Being Upright
  Reb Anderson Roshi's profound and inspiring book takes the reader beyond the conventional interpretation of ethical precepts, to the ultimate meaning that informs them. He asks who was Shakyamuni Buddha and what was his central teaching? What is the significance of taking refuge in the Buddhist sen...
• Book of Equanimity
  The Book of Equanimity contains the first-ever complete English commentaries on one of the most beloved classic collections of Zen teaching stories (koans), making them vividly relevant to spiritual seekers and Zen students in the 21st century. This collection is used for Zen training in many Zen c...
• Dogen's Extensive Record
  Eihei Dogen, the 13th-century Zen master and founder of the Japanese Soto School of Zen, is renowed as one of the world's foremost religious thinkers. As Shakespeare does in English, Dogen utterly transforms the langugage of Zen, using it in novel and extraordinarily beautiful ways to point to ever...
• Hardcore Zen, Punk Rock Monster Movies & the Truth About Reality
  The author presents a series of fascinating stories culled from modern life, using them to illustrate the workings of Zen Buddhism for those who do not care about Zen but could nevertheless benefit from its wisdom. Original....
• Christian Zen: A Way of Meditation
  Christian Zen is a ground breaking book for all Christians seeking to deepen and broaden their inner lives. Providing concrete guidelines for a way of Christian meditation that incorporates Eastern insights, it is a helpful book that can open new spiritual vistas and reveal profound, often undreame...
• That Which You are Seeking is Causing You to Seek
  The teachings of Zen are presented to Westerners in this book, which is comprised of many short sections accompanied by illustrations on subjects ranging from compassion and meditation to death. The concepts of "subpersonalities" (the many aspects of the personality) and "projection&...
• Zen Living
  Explains what Zen is and how it came to America, how to practice Zen and incorporate it into daily living, and the Zen approach to the world....
• Chan Buddhism
  Chan Buddhism has become paradigmatic of Buddhist spirituality. Known in Japan as Zen and in Korea as Son, it is one of the most strikingly iconoclastic spiritual traditions in the world. This succinct and lively work clearly expresses the meaning of Chan as it developed in China more than a thousa...
• The Key
  This book features the secret key to unlocking our full potential - from Joe Vitale, high-profile contributor to The Secret. The Key reveals the ultimate secret of attracting wealth, health, success, happiness, or anything else that we want from life. From author and self-help guru Joe Vitale, The ...
• Zen in the Art of Archery
  Since its original publication in 1953, Zen in the Art of Archery has become one of the classic works on Eastern philosophy, the first book to delve deeply into the role of Zen in philosophy, development, and practice of Eastern martial arts. Wise, deeply personal, and frequently charming, it is th...
• Thich Nhat Hanh
  A Buddhist monk from Vietnam named Thich Nhat Hanh lives at Plum Village, in France. Families from all over the world visit Plum Village to learn from him, as he has dedicated his life to peace and teaching others to live in a mindful way. Children call him Thay, which means teacher. He believes th...
• Record of Things Heard
  This Zen classic is a collection of talks by the great Japanese Zen Master Dogen, the founder of the Soto School. They were recorded by Ejo, one of Dogen's first disciples, and later his foremost successor. The talks and stories in this volume were written in the thirteenth-century Japan, a time wh...
• A Little Book of Zen
  Designed to emulate traditional, full-sized books, the fashions of classic bookmaking -- full-color throughout, stylized endpapers, fine quality paper, full-length text, and Smyth-sewn binding -- are represented in this line. Topical. Traditional. Tactile. Tempting. Targeted. Less than half the ...
• The Record of Transmitting the Light
  The Record of Transmitting the Light traces the inheritance of the Buddha's enlightenment through successive Buddhist masters. Written by a seminal figure in the Japanese Zen tradition, it illuminates critical teachings that will be of great interest and importance to students. This book stands as ...
• The Zen of Small Things
  Human beings are natural seekers. We want answers and meaning, and we expect to find both in 'big' things. Big possessions, big organizations, big beliefs. Inevitably, we find that big, external things become a heavy weight on the soul, driving us further from a truth that can only come from within...
• Zen
  This introduction to Zen combines hundreds of traditional kong-ans with vivid artwork that create a balance between one's self and the world. Zen is described as a practice: something that one does as opposed to something one learns or understands. Kong-ans are questions that are contemplated as pa...
• Zen Mum
  This is a relaxing Mother's Day treat from frazzled mums everywhere! Leave work, pop into the supermarket, pick up the kids from football practice, cook dinner, and who made that mess in the living room? Zen Mummy? Yeah, right! It is for every mother...
• Eihei Dogen
  With all the good work that has been done recently on Dogen studies, Kim's very clear book is still the only comprehensive introduction. Taigen Dan Leighton...
• The Morning Star
  The Morning Star is the magnificent refinement of the thoughts of the Zen Buddhist writer and teacher known for his clarity, compassion and insight. Second-hand book, click to see more...
• Ordinary Mind
  Ordinary Mind offers a groundbreaking synthesis that begins to move us from a psychology of illness into a psychology of wellness. In an engaging, accessible, and often witty style, psychiatrist and Zen teacher Barry Magid helps us to understand challenging Zen ideas - openess, emptiness, no-self a...
• Hitchhiking from Vietnam
  This is a funny and intelligently written memoir of a Vietnam veteran's search for self. It is an account of Vietanm veteran Richard Chamberlin's meandering journey to fulfillment during the 60's and 70's based on an actual cross-country hitchhiking trip the author took when he was 30 years old. Th...
• Original Dwelling Place
  In this collection of twenty-three essays, Robert Aitken retraces the origins of American Zen Buddhism and provides readings of influential texts. Reflecting on death, on marriage, and on Zen practice, Aitken always points out the path to pleasure in the everyday dewdrop world. There is a fine art ...
• The Samurai Series
  The Samurai Series brings together three of the most important books that deal with the Samurai path and philosophy into one volume. It contains: The Book of Five Rings which was written by Miyamoto Musashi, a Samurai of legendary renown, about 1645 AD. It is a masterpiece of simple exposition ...
• Zen - The Religion of the Samurai
  Zen was uniquely suited to the Samurai of Japan. The high moral principles of Buddhism, when adopted and adapted by the Japanese warriors who became the Samurai, created an austere philosophy of singular beauty and depth. Its characteristic requirements of strict control over body and mind was exem...
• Zen Therapy
  These days . . . we are apt to seek out a therapist to . . . help us get the dragon back into its cave. Therapists of many schools will oblige in this, and we will thus be returned to what Freud called 'ordinary unhappiness.' Zen, by contrast, offers dragon-riding lessons. ? David Brazier A potent ...
• Buddha from Korea
  A Buddha from Korea is intended to open a window on Zen Buddhism in old Korea. The book centers on a translation of teachings of the great fourteenth-century Korean Zen adept known as T'aego, who was the leading representative of Zen in his own time and place. This is an account of Zen Buddhism dir...
• The Life and Letters of Tofu Roshi
  Tofu Roshi--the fictional Dear Abby of Zen Buddhism--counsels his readers about their spiritual problems in this hilarious spoof of America's search for enlightenment. Selections from his advice column alternate with commentary from narrator and disciple Ichi Su....
• Mind Crash
  Mind Crash sets out to explore the deepest recesses of the human psyche through the utilization of several, quite often brutal, language exploration techniques. The results, a seemingly random collection of metaphysical short stories, cut-ups, koans, poems and automatic writing, are often as unsett...
• Morning Dewdrops of the Mind
  In this concise collection of essays, Shodo Harada Roshi brings zen to life. Reflecting on current events and the state of society, he applies zen's direct and simple teachings to the benefit of the reader....
• The Magic of Zen
  A fascinating exploration of the basic spiritual relevance of Zen to magic and magic to Zen, this unique book discusses the influences of the subconscious, karmic energy, polarity, rhythm, reincarnation, psychic abilities, the law of gender, vibration, and tranquilizing contemplation. The Magic of ...
• The Rhetoric of Immediacy
  Exploring key concepts and metaphors, Bernard Faure guides readers to an appreciation of some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese traditions of Chan Buddhism and Japanese Zen. Faure focuses on Chan's insistence on immediacy--its denial of all traditional meditations, including scripture, rit...
• The Spirit of Zen - A Way of Life, Work and Art in the Far East
  Here is something quite unfamiliar to the West, something which will appeal strongly to all who are trying to find deeper reality in life than philosophy and conventional religion can express. Historically, Zen is an aspect of Buddhism, but in itself it is so vital and elusive that it escapes defin...
• The Unborn : Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei
  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, propp...
• Zen from the Upper Dorm Bunk
  Zen From the Upper Dorm Bunk: The Uncommon Common Sense of Life is the first self-help book of its kind which puts the reader in control of life lessons, indeed the fundamentals of leading a life filled with unreasonable happiness. Started during his years attending college, Sean brings an insider'...
• Zen in the Art of Flyfishing
  The art of fly fishing is inherently a spiritual practice. This book explains the how and why. Zen is not philosophy, nor is it mystical. It is simply direct action in the present moment. Learn how this incredible adventure can transform your life and society as well. Fly Rod and Reel magazine call...
• Zen and the Art of Postmodern Philosophy
  This book examines and compares the philosophical positions of various postmodern thinkers and Zen Buddhist philosophers on: language and play modes of thinking skepticism and doubt self and other time and death nihilism and metaphysics and the conce...
• 101 Zen Stories
• Cave of Tigers
  Dharma combat is a practice form unique to Zen in which student and teacher confront each other before a live audience, so to speak. The Zen master takes a seat at the front of the meditation hall and is approached by students, one by one, who challe...
• Magic of Zen
  A fascinating exploration of the basic spiritual relevance of Zen to magic and magic to Zen, this unique book discusses the influences of the subconscious, karmic energy, polarity, rhythm, reincarnation, psychic abilities, the law of gender, vibration, and tranquilizing contemplation. The Magic of ...
• One Robe, One Bowl
  The hermit-monk Ryokan, long beloved in Japan both for his poetry and for his character, belongs in the tradition of the great Zen eccentrics of China and Japan. His reclusive life and celebration of nature and the natural life also bring to mind his...
• Open Mind Zen: A Guide to Meditation
• Soul Sword
  The power of the warrior mind is its ability to act from a state of No Mind, with technique arising effortlessly out of emptiness. As a mirror reflects objects without clinging to the images, the Warrior Mind is free to flow from one object to the ne...
• Subtle Wisdom
  A renowned teacher of Ch'an Buddhism provides an introduction to this powerful world of thought--an important exploration perfect for those just coming to Buddhism or those already familiar with the Tibetan and Zen schools....
• Western Zen
• The Zen Manager
• The Zen of Photography
• Zen and the Art of Poker
  Inside the intriguing world of poker lies a fascinating exercise in strategy and extreme concentration -- many of the same principles that underpin the one-thousand-year-old philosophy of Zen spirituality. Zen and the Art of Poker is the first book to apply Zen theories to America's most popular ca...
• Zen and the Lady
  This is the personal story of a woman's journey into Zen, beginning in her 70th year and continuing into her eighties. When first published in 1979 it was praised by the most respected spiritual researchers and psychologists of the time including Kenneth Ring, Jean Houston, Ken Wilbur, Charles Tart...
• Zen Colorado
• Essential Zen
  The best collection of Zen wisdom and wit since Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, this lively introduction to Zen Buddhism has it all. Koans, sayings, poems, and stories by Eastern and American Zen teachers and students capture the delightful, challenging, mystifying, mind-stopping, outrageous, and scandalous ...
• The Gateless Gate
  A collection of 49 koan puzzles that are used in the practice of Zen meditation. With commentary by the 13th century Japanese Zen master Mumon....
• A Study of Dogen
  Abe's studies of Dogen constitute a minor masterpiece within his overall scholarly production. His efforts have been two-fold: translation and interpretation....
• The Three Pillars of Zen
  Through explorations of the three pillars of Zen--teaching, practice, and enlightenment--Roshi Philip Kapleau presents a comprehensive overview of the history and discipline of Zen Buddhism. This is an established classic. Philip Kapleau was spiritual director of the Rochester Zen Center, one of th...
• Instant Zen
  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 atten...
• Liberating Intimacy
• Reflections in Truth
• The Way of the Living Sword:the Secret Teachings of Yagyu Munenori
  The Way of the Living Sword is the final installment in D.E. Tarver's popular Warrior Series. It stands beside The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi as one of the greatest writings of the warrior mind. In The Way of the Living Sword, Munenori gives an in-depth explanation of the connection bet...
• Zen Dictionary
• The Buddhist Teaching of Totality: The Philosophy of Hwa Yen Buddhism
• The Teachings of Zen Master Dogen
  Practical and down to earth, paradoxical, and mystical, these lessons from Zen master Dogen illuminate humankinds contemporary search for self-liberation. Unabridged. 3 CDs....
• Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
  With over one million copies sold fifty years after its first printing, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones has inspired countless lives. Hailed as the most profound religious philosophy ever, this farreaching system of aesthetics truly tackles the question: What is Zen? Zen Flesh, Zen Bones has been sharing wi...
• Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness
  When Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind was published in 1972, it was enthusiastically embraced by Westerners eager for spiritual insight and knowledge of Zen. The book became the most successful treatise on Buddhism in English, selling more than one million copies to date. Branching ...
• The Bodhidharma Anthology
  In the early part of this century, the discovery of a walled-up cave in northwest China led to the retrieval of a lost early Ch'an (Zen) literature of the T'ang dynasty (618-907). One of the recovered Zen texts was a seven-piece collection, the Bodhi...
• Seeing Through Zen
  The tradition of Chan Buddhism - more popularly known as Zen - has been romanticized throughout its history. In this book, John R. McRae shows how modern critical techniques, supported by recent manuscript discoveries, make possible a more skeptical, accurate, and - ultimately - productive assessme...
• The Spiritual Practices of the Ninja
  The Ninja are a mysterious warrior elite said to be so spiritually advanced that they know the mind and will of God. Regarded with awe as masters of invisibility and warriors of the shadow-self, their legendary skills include the ability to command the elements and transform themselves into Fire, W...
• Zen at War
  A compelling history of the contradictory, often militaristic, role of Zen Buddhism, this book meticulously documents the close and previously unknown support of a supposedly peaceful religion for Japanese militarism throughout World War II. Drawing on the writings and speeches of leading Zen maste...
• The Beginner's Guide to Zen Buddhism
  This guide assumes no previous knowledge of Zen Buddhism. It provides the fundamentals of meditation practice, basic teachings and major texts, a description of the teacher/student relationship, and a history of Zen from the founding of Buddhism to i...
• Endless Vow
  Endless Vow is the first English-language collection of the literary works of Soen Nakagawa Roshi. An intimate, in-depth portrait of the master of Eido Tai Shimano, his Dharma heir, introduces the poems, letters, journal entries, and other writings of Soen Roshi, which are illustrated with his call...
• A Guide to Zen
  Katsuki Sekida was both a great writer and a great master of Zen. His finest work, Zen Training, published in 1975, remains one of the finest books on Zen ever written in English. Now Marc Allen, a former student of Katsuki Sekida's, has carefully cu...
• Nirvana in a Nutshell
  This handbook presents over 150 Zen meditations to help you discover what you might be doing (or not doing) in your life to sabotage your goal of reaching inner peace, your own personal paradise. Scott Shaw contends that people are looking for contentment in all the wrong places, and believes that ...
• Samurai Zen
  The success of the Samurai rests not only on martial arts skills, but also on the spiritual enlightenment of Zen Buddhism. This martial arts book shows how techniques such as the Iado and Kyudo lead to enlightenment and Satori - the burst of clarity ...
• Sayings and Tales of Zen Buddhism
  Part religion, part philosophy. Zen offers a way of life and a discipline for those who wish to develop a deeper understanding of the world around them. In this outstanding compilation, a range of sayings, tales and verses have been selected one for each day of the year....
• Transmission of Light
  This classic of Japanese Zen literature is from one of the premier translators of Buddhist texts. TRANSMISSION OF LIGHT is a collection of traditional teaching stories or koans about fifty-three Buddhist patriarchs of India, China and Japan. The stories describe the enlightenment experiences of eac...
• Unlocking the Zen Koan
  In Unlocking the Zen Koan (originally published as No Boundary) Thomas Cleary translates directly from the Chinese and interprets Zen Master Wumen's text and commentaries in verse and prose on the inner meaning of the koans. Cleary then gives us other great Chinese Zen masters' comments in prose or...
• Wind Bell
  In the 1960s, the San Francisco Zen Center established itself as a focal point for the study and practice of Zen Buddhism. Lectures and talks given at the center and compiled for this collection cover such topics as applying Zen to family life ('Karma, Dharma, and Diapers'), to other disciplines ('...
• The Zen Path Through Depression
  Drawing on his own struggle, Philip Martin reveals another path people can travel to get through depression - one that not only eases the pain, but mends the spirit. Extremely accessible to people with little or no Zen experience as well as to longtime students of Buddhism, this guide shows how the...
• ZEN Body-being
  In this inspiring guide, Peter Ralston presents a program of physical education for anyone interested in body improvement. Using simple, clear language to demystify the Zen mindset, he draws on more than three decades of experience teaching students and apprentices worldwide who have applied his bo...
• Zen Dawn
  This important book brings together three long-lost texts, the earliest known writings on Zen. Records of the Teachers and Students of the Lanka presents a complete set of biographies of the Zen patriarchs. Bodhidharma's Treatise on Contemplating Mind-- written in the form of a dialogue between the...
• How You Do Anything is How You Do Everything
  This self-discovery workbook contains 16 short essays interspersed with writing and drawing exercises on numerous topics, including money, body image, relationships, and career....
• The Whole Heart of Zen
  From the once-secret oral tradition of Song Shan Monastery, known in the west as the Shaolin Temple, Reverend Venerable John Bright-Fey presents for the first time the revealed sermons of Ta-Mo, the founder of Zen. When Indian Buddhism migrated to China at the beginning of the first millennia, it m...
• Zen and the Art of Happiness
  The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular state of mind that brings the experience of enlightenment - and through that experience, happiness. In Zen and the Art of Happiness, you will learn how to think and feel so that what you think and feel creates happiness and vibrancy in your li...
• The Ballad Of Desmond Kale
  In the early 1800s, out of the prison society of governors, redcoats, English gaolers, Irish convicts, and the few free settlers of Botany Bay, one had entured much farther inland than a few dozen miles from Sydney into the vast territory claimed, New South Wales. Or so it was believed until the es...
• American Brother, The
  What happens when the war against global terrorism also destroys individual integrity and personal freedom? This is the bold, disturbing theme of Manfred Jurgensen's The American Brother. Harry Greene, although a serious-minded intellectual, finds himself at times in absurdly humorous situations. S...