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Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy

10 best books like Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy (Katsuki Sekida): Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It, The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?, Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet, How the Mind Works, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice, The Naked Mountain, Zen in the Art of Archery, The Three Pillars of Zen, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind, Manual of Zen Buddhism

Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It
AuthorGabrielle Walker
ISBN0609609734
Did the Earth once undergo a super ice age, one that froze the entire planet from the poles to the equator? In Snowball Earth, gifted writer Gabrielle Walker has crafted an intriguing global adventure story, following maverick scientist Paul Hoffman’s quest to prove a theory so audacious and profound...
The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?
AuthorJan Zalasiewicz
ISBN0199214972
Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz takes the reader on a fascinating trip one hundred million years into the future--long after the human race becomes extinct--to explore what will remain of our brief but dramatic sojourn on Earth. He describes how geologists in the far future might piece together the history...
Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet
AuthorTed Nield
ISBN0674026594
To understand continental drift and plate tectonics, the shifting and collisions that make and unmake continents, requires a long view. The Earth, after all, is 4.6 billion years old. This book extends our vision to take in the greatest geological cycle of all--one so vast that our species will probably...
How the Mind Works
AuthorSteven Pinker
ISBN0393318486
In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 book, The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy...
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
AuthorShunryu Suzuki
ISBN0834800799
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”

So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. In a single stroke, the simple sentence...
The Naked Mountain
AuthorReinhold Messner

* Did Reinhold Messner sacrifice his brother to his ambition?
* Publication of this book in Germany stirred controversy across Europe
* The most personal book Messner has ever written
* More than 45,000 copies sold of the German edition
Reinhold Messner is famous for many firsts:...
Zen in the Art of Archery
AuthorEugen Herrigel
ISBN0375705090
The path to achieving Zen (a balance between the body and the mind) is brilliantly explained by Professor Eugen Herrigel in this timeless account.

This book is the result of the author’s six year quest to learn archery in the hands of Japanese Zen masters. It is an honest account of one man’s...
The Three Pillars of Zen
AuthorPhilip Kapleau
ISBN0385260938
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,...
The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind
AuthorHuang Po
ISBN0802150926
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...
Manual of Zen Buddhism
AuthorD.T. Suzuki
ISBN0802130658
Here are the famous sutras, or sermons, of the Buddha, the gathas, or hymns, the intriguing philosophical puzzles known as koan, and the dharanis, or invocations to expel evil spirits. Included also are the recorded conversations of the great Buddhist monks—intimate dialogues on the subjects...
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