Zen talks. Trying to be human. About discovering that we already are everything we yearn for.
Offers an original way to integrate spiritual and scientific views of human evolution. This work offers an alternative to the way we think about our origins: random mutation (mechanistic neo-Darwinism), Genesis (God did it all personally), and Intelligent Design (God personally does what we can't otherwise account for).
One of the Little Book series, aiming to provide inspiring texts to stimulate the mind and inspire the heart.
The Record of Linji stands as one of the great classics of the Zen tradition, and modern Zen master and reformer Hisamatsu Shin'ichi offers a lively and penetrating exploration of the religious essence of the text. Several decades ago, Hisamatsu gave the 22 talks translated here.
The essays collected in this volume argue that our understanding of the Koan tradition has been severely limited. The authors try to undermine stereotypes and problematic interpretations by examining unrecognized factors in the formation of this tradition.
A compilation of quotes, phrases, stories, koan, haiku, poetry and other words whose maverick Zen spirit points to a different way of looking at the world. The text contains 2500 years of wisdom, both Eastern and Western, from the Buddha and Lao-tzu to Thoreau.
Between sections of recipes in this unique cookbook are funny and touching stories that reflect the challenges and joys of living as a Zen monk. 90 recipes. Photos throughout.
Good Life presents the Buddhist precepts as signposts on the path to discovering human beings' inherent goodness. It offers concrete ways of transforming real-life difficulties into freedom.
Buddhism has inspired some of the greatest philosophical writings. This translation of the Diamond Sutra , the Buddhist teaching on the perfection of wisdom is said to contain answers to all questions of delusion and dualism and to cut through all obstacles on the path of perfection.