Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
10 best books like Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings (Paul Reps): Everyday Zen: Love and Work, The Three Pillars of Zen, Taking the Path of Zen, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind, Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings of D. T. Suzuki, The Heart Sutra, The Little Zen Companion, Zen Speaks: Shouts of Nothingness, The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, Zen: The Path of Paradox
| Author | Charlotte Joko Beck |
| ISBN | 0060607343 |
DOES A DOG HAVE BUDDHA NATURE?
Maybe - for Zen is Nothing Special. Skimming thru this little miracle of a book again this morning for the umpteen zillionth time, I read:
"My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit...
| Author | Philip Kapleau |
| ISBN | 0385260938 |
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. An established classic, this 35th anniversary edition features new illustrations and photographs,...
| Author | Robert Aitken |
| ISBN | 0865470804 |
There is a fine art to presenting complex ideas with simplicity and insight, in a manner that both guides and inspires. In Taking the Path of Zen Robert Aitken presents the practice, lifestyle, rationale, and ideology of Zen Buddhism with remarkable clarity.
The foundation of Zen is the practice...
| Author | Huang Po |
| ISBN | 0802150926 |
This complete translation of the original collection of sermons, dialogues, and anecdotes of Huang Po, the illustrious Chinese master of the Tang Dynasty, allows the Western reader to gain an understanding of Zen from the original source, one of the key works in its teachings; it also offers deep and...
| Author | D.T. Suzuki |
| ISBN | 0385093004 |
No other figure in history has played a bigger part in opening the West to Buddhism than the eminent Zen author D.T. Suzuki. In the reissue of his best work, readers are given the very heart of Zen teaching. These writings are brought together to form the most accessible & definitive overview of Zen...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 1593760825 |
The short text of The Heart Sutra is Buddhism in a nutshell. It has had the most profound and wide-reaching influence of any text in Buddhism. Its full title, Prajna Paramita Hrdaya Sutra, "The Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom," explains that this sutra contains the essence of the Buddha’s...
| Author | David Schiller |
| ISBN | 1563054671 |
While it seeks neither to define Zen nor answer its most famous koan (a riddle unanswerable by conventional thinking, in this case the sound of one hand clapping), this bestselling little book with 437,000 copies in print possesses a maverick Zen spirit that points to a different way of looking at the...
| Author | Tsai Chih Chung |
| ISBN | 0385472579 |
This collection of comic strips is a wonderful distillation of Zen. Since Zen is more of a style of living than an actual religion, it converts well to bite-sized snippets. The tradition of Zen koans also lends itself to this presentation.
I originally read this book in the early 2000s, during...
| Author | Bodhidharma |
| ISBN | 0865473994 |
A fifth-century Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma is credited with bringing Zen to China. Although the tradition that traces its ancestry back to him did not flourish until nearly two hundred years after his death, today millions of Zen Buddhists and students of kung fu claim him as their spiritual...
In Zen: The Path of Paradox, Osho suggests Zen as a possible bridge between East and West, and between the scientific and the spiritual. "Without science," Osho said, "the East has lost much; without meditation, the West has lost much. I am trying to bring together East and West, because together they...
Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), among the first to transmit Zen Buddhism from China to Japan and founder of the important Soto School, was not only a profoundly influential and provocative Zen philosopher but also one of the most stimulating figures in Japanese letters.
Kazuaki Tanahashi, collaborating...
| Author | Línjì Yìxuán |
| ISBN | 0231114850 |
Among the most important texts of Zen literature, the "Lin-Chi lu" details the insights and exploits of the great ninth century Chinese Zen master Lin-chi, one of the most highly regarded of the T'ang period masters. PEN Translation Prize-winner Burton Watson presents here an eloquent translation...
| Author | Shunryu Suzuki |
| ISBN | 0060957549 |
Practising the true spirit of Zen.
Not Always So is based on Shunryu Suzuki's lectures and is framed in his own inimitable, allusive, paradoxical style, rich with unexpected and off–centre insights. Suzuki knew he was dying at the time of the lectures, which gives his thoughts an urgency...
| Author | David Chadwick |
| ISBN | 0767901053 |
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 first full biography of any Zen master to be published in the West. To make up his intimate and engrossing...
| Author | Katsuki Sekida |
| ISBN | 0834801140 |
I don't pretend to understand most of this book. It was a heavy read, at times plodding - and yet I'm glad to have had the chance to read it. Certain passages struck me:
Someday you will have this kind of experience. And one day, when you emerge from it, rising from your seat, stepping across the doorsill,...
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 0385475616 |
Thich Nhat Hanh brings his warmth and clarity to this unique explication of Zen Buddhism. Beginning with a discussion of daily life in a Zen monastery, Nhat Hanh illustrates the character of Zen as practiced in Vietnam, and gives the reader clear explanations of the central elements of Zen practice...
This is the classic compendium of Zen koans, with commentary appended, along with poetic commentary on the commentary. It is for the most part brain shattering, and it's appeal is broad, as it bridges the sudden and gradual paths.
It is a supreme melding of radical metaphysics and radical language....
| Author | Peter Matthiessen |
| ISBN | 1570623678 |
In August 1968, naturalist-explorer Peter Matthiessen returned from Africa to his home in Sagaponack, Long Island, to find three Zen masters in his driveway—guests of his wife, a new student of Zen. Thirteen years later, Matthiessen was ordained a Buddhist monk. Written in the same format as his...
| Author | Seung Sahn |
| ISBN | 1570623295 |
The Compass of Zen is a simple, exhaustive—and often hilarious—presentation of the essence of Zen by a modern Zen Master of considerable renown. In his many years of teaching throughout the world, the Korean-born Zen Master Seung Sahn has become known for his ability to cut to the heart of Buddhist...
