Books like the "Jew in the Lotus" have helped to define the intersection of Jewish and Zen experience and custom. Now, in the first guide to the "practice" of both Judaism and Zen, Dr. Brenda Shoshann...
A fiery and intensely dynamic Zen teacher and artist, Hakuin (1685-1768) is credited with almost single-handedly revitalizing Japanese Zen after three hundred years of decline. As a teacher, he placed...
In this treasury of Zen wisdom based on his talks, the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt. Tremper, New York, explores the eight areas of study that are the focus for training in his community: med...
Two of DO gen's most esteemed translators provide key chapters form his Zen masterpiece, the Sho bo genzo , in English with annotations to guide the reader.
Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in Crooked Cucumber, the firs...
Zen experience defies all thinking and linguistic description and simply affirms what is evidently real: "The ordinary way-that precisely is the Way." After questioning the nature of reality, the Zen ...
Zen rituals-such as chanting, bowing, lighting incense before the Buddha statue-are ways of recognizing the sacredness in all of life. A ritual is simply a deliberate and focused moment that symbolize...
For all its emphasis on the direct experience of insight without reliance on the products of the intellect, the Zen tradition has created a huge body of writings. Of this vast literature, the writings...
The writings of the twelfth-century Chinese Zen master Ta Hui are as immediately accessible as those of any contemporary teacher, and this book, which introduced them to the English-speaking world in ...
Throughout Zen history, stories and anecdotes of Zen masters and their students have been used as teaching devices to exemplify the enlightened spirit. Unlike many of the baffling dialogues between Ze...
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