Download or read book Zen Seeds written by Shundo Aoyama and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a living treasure of Japanese Zen, an inspiring collection of teachings about the power of Buddhist practice to help you transform suffering and touch the marrow of your life. In this sparkling collection of teachings, Japanese Zen master Shundo Aoyama Roshi offers an entry to the authentic practice of Zen Buddhism. Or, rather, she offers a myriad of entries—for Zen Seeds, as its title suggests, is comprised of brief chapters meant to plant seeds of wisdom and compassion in readers. Ranging from classical Zen sources, such as the teachings of Dogen and the encounter stories of the koans, to anecdotes from Aoyama’s fascinating life and from those of her many students, the book paints a profoundly compelling portrait of the transformative possibilities of Zen. A pioneering female leader in the Soto Zen school, Aoyama Roshi demonstrates the power of practice for anyone seeking to lead a life of greater conviction and spiritual nourishment.
Download or read book Zen Seeds written by Shundo Aoyama and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a living treasure of Japanese Zen, an inspiring collection of teachings about the power of Buddhist practice to help you transform suffering and touch the marrow of your life. In this sparkling collection of teachings, Japanese Zen master Shundo Aoyama Roshi offers an entry to the authentic practice of Zen Buddhism. Or, rather, she offers a myriad of entries—for Zen Seeds, as its title suggests, is comprised of brief chapters meant to plant seeds of wisdom and compassion in readers. Ranging from classical Zen sources, such as the teachings of Dogen and the encounter stories of the koans, to anecdotes from Aoyama’s fascinating life and from those of her many students, the book paints a profoundly compelling portrait of the transformative possibilities of Zen. A pioneering female leader in the Soto Zen school, Aoyama Roshi demonstrates the power of practice for anyone seeking to lead a life of greater conviction and spiritual nourishment.
Download or read book Zen Seeds written by Shundo Aoyama and published by Kosei Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wisdom found on these pages is deceptively simple yet infinitely useful. Aoyama cuts though to the essence of each topic she discusses. Her immense sense of calm and tranquility is transferable to the reader due to her eloquent writing style and choice of accentuating quotes. If enlightenment could be bottled, this book would be that bottle.
Download or read book Seeds for a Boundless Life written by Zenkei Blanche Hartman and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zenkei Blanche Hartman is an American Zen legend. A teacher in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, she was the first female abbot of an American Zen center. She is greatly revered, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she has lived and taught for many years. This, her long-awaited first book, is a collection of short teachings taken from her talks on the subject of boundlessness—the boundlessness that sees beyond our small, limited self to include all others. To live a boundless life she encourages living the vows prescribed by the Buddha and living life with the curiosity of a child. The short, stand-alone pieces can be dipped into whenever one is in need of inspiration.
Download or read book Planting Seeds written by Thich Nhat Hanh and published by Parallax Press. This book was released on 2007-05-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children is the fruit of decades of development and innovation in the Plum Village community's collective practice with children. Based on Thich Nhat Hanh's thirty years of teaching mindfulness and compassion to parents, teachers, and children, the book and enclosed CD cover a wide range of contemplative and fun activities parents and educators can do with their children or students. The activities are designed to help relieve stress, increase concentration, nourish gratitude and confidence, deal with difficult emotions, touch our interconnection with nature, and improve communication. Planting Seeds offers insight, concrete activities, and curricula that parents and educators can apply in school settings, in their local communities or at home, in a way that is meaningful and inviting to children. The key practices presented include mindful breathing and walking, inviting the bell, pebble meditation, the Two Promises or ethical guidelines for children, children's versions of Touching the Earth and Deep Relaxation, eating meditation and dealing with conflict and strong emotions. Also included, are the lyrics to the songs on the enclosed CD that summarize and highlight the key teachings, as well as a chapter on dealing effectively with conflict in the classroom or difficult group dynamics, based on a conference with Thich Nhat Hanh, teachers and students. The accompanying CD has inspiring recordings of all the songs in the book as well as a guided pebble meditation, total relaxation, and children's touching the earth. Beautiful, color illustrations by Wietske Vriezen Illustrator of Mindful Movements (ISBN-13: 978-1-888375-79-4) accompany the various practices. Any adult wishing to plant seeds of peace, relaxation, and awareness in children will find this book and CD helpful. It is full of wisdom on how to simply be with children and nourish their compassion for themselves and others. Illustrated by Wietske Vriezen Illustrator of Mindful Movements (Mindful Movements – Ten Exercise for Well Being, ISBN-13: 978-1-888375-79-4). Includes 1 audio CD.
Download or read book Seeds for a Boundless Life written by Zenkei Blanche Hartman and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short and accessible teachings from one of America's pioneer woman Zen teachers. Zenkei Blanche Hartman is an American Zen legend. A teacher in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, she was the first female abbot of an American Zen center. She is greatly revered, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she has lived and taught for many years. This, her long-awaited first book, is a collection of short teachings taken from her talks on the subject of boundlessness--the boundlessness that sees beyond our small, limited self to include all others. To live a boundless life she encourages living the vows prescribed by the Buddha and living life with the curiosity of a child. The short, stand-alone pieces can be dipped into whenever one is in need of inspiration.
Download or read book Seeds of Virtue Seeds of Change written by Jikyo Cheryl Wolfer and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-seven women Zen masters teaching in this collection came to Soto Zen because they believed their spiritual practice could make a difference in themselves and a difference for the world. They speak directly to us from the platform of their own awakening experiences because the world most needs the ethical values found in these teachings on body, speech, and mind. It offers the authentic presence of teachers firmly planted in the Dharma with the myriad flavors of Zen practice from the informal personal taste of a small Zen community to the formal banquet of large urban centers. This book of Zen teachings is one response to the current global crises which demand a spiritual response equal to or greater than the problems we humans have collectively created. Like seeds planted and creating change, the teachings speak to those already meditating or those ready to begin meditation with the individuals worldwide who recognize the need to meditate together. Their words open us to the nature of compassion for ourselves and others. The lives of these women Zen masters inspire us to walk beside them in the Dharma and root ourselves in the deep groundwork of a spiritual practice and the living virtue of a spiritual home.
Download or read book Zen and the Birds of Appetite written by Thomas Merton and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merton, one of the rare Western thinkers able to feel at home in the philosophies of the East, made the wisdom of Asia available to Westerners. "Zen enriches no one," Thomas Merton provocatively writes in his opening statement to Zen and the Birds of Appetite—one of the last books to be published before his death in 1968. "There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while... but they soon go elsewhere. When they are gone, the 'nothing,' the 'no-body' that was there, suddenly appears. That is Zen. It was there all the time but the scavengers missed it, because it was not their kind of prey." This gets at the humor, paradox, and joy that one feels in Merton's discoveries of Zen during the last years of his life, a joy very much present in this collection of essays. Exploring the relationship between Christianity and Zen, especially through his dialogue with the great Zen teacher D.T. Suzuki, the book makes an excellent introduction to a comparative study of these two traditions, as well as giving the reader a strong taste of the mature Merton. Never does one feel him losing his own faith in these pages; rather one feels that faith getting deeply clarified and affirmed. Just as the body of "Zen" cannot be found by the scavengers, so too, Merton suggests, with the eternal truth of Christ.
Download or read book One God Clapping written by Alan Lew and published by Jewish Lights Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Zen Buddhist practitioner to rabbi, East meets West in this firsthand account of a spiritual journey. Rabbi Alan Lew is known as the Zen Rabbi, a leader in the Jewish meditation movement who works to bring two ancient religious traditions into our everyday lives. One God Clapping is the story of his roundabout yet continuously provoking spiritual odyssey. It is also the story of the meeting between East and West in America, and the ways in which the encounter has transformed how all of us understand God and ourselves. Winner of the PEN / Joseph E. Miles Award Like a Zen parable or a Jewish folk tale, One God Clapping unfolds as a series of stories, each containing a moment of revelation or instruction that, while often unexpected, is never simple or contrived. One God Clapping, like the life of the remarkable Alan Lew himself, is a bold experiment in the integration of Eastern and Western ways of looking at and living in the world.
Download or read book The Seed of Compassion written by His Holiness The Dalai Lama and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time ever, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate His Holiness the Dalai Lama addresses children directly, sharing lessons of peace and compassion, told through stories of his own childhood. One of today's most inspiring world leaders was once an ordinary child named Lhamo Thondup. In a small village in Tibet, his mother was his first great teacher of compassion. In everyday moments from his childhood, young readers begin to see that important lessons are all around us, and that they, too, can grow to truly understand them. With simple, powerful text, the Dalai Lama shares the universalist teachings of treating one another with compassion, which Bao Luu illustrates beautifully in vibrant color. In an increasingly confusing world, The Seed of Compassion offers guidance and encouragement on how we all might bring more kindness to it.
Download or read book Sowing The Seeds Of Love written by Maggie Walsh and published by Cree Storm. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is book 5 of the Eternal Flames Maddox series, you should read Eternal Flames 1-9 and book 1-4 of Eternal Flames Maddox before this book. Pascal is a Santorini Fox that has always been the strong one and caretaker of his family, but he has always had a dream of someone caring for him for a change. He loves his job working for Pixie Regent Dain, but has secretly always wanted to work with plants, and hopes to one day make his dream come true. Zen is an African Elephant shifter who lost everything when his father passed. Because of the life he lived he wants his true mate, but will not claim his mate until love comes first. But Zen also has a secret passion for things that grow. When one day he meets his mate, he knows he has truly met the other half of his soul, but someone from his past is looking for him and wants to cause him harm. Surprises are around every corner for these two, including someone trying to kidnap his mate, a doppelganger of a close friend, a brother he never knew existed, and a plan to stop a blood brothel from coming to Maddox. With all these forces working against them, will Pascal and Zen ever find their happily ever after?
Download or read book Zen Seeds for Fallow Ground written by Shoken Winecoff and published by Press of the Camp Pope Bookshop. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zen seeds germinate when the ground is ready. These are teachings that are open to everyone. If you've lived a little bit of life, you probably know what it means to have your ground tilled by life's plow. When the ground of your life has been turned over, you are ready receive these seeds.These Zen seeds are teachings that I received from Dainin Katagiri, a Zen monk who came from Japan to the U.S. He ultimately founded the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in Minneapolis during the 1970's. I began Zen meditation practice there when my own life-ground was being turned over. I was ready to receive the seeds of Zen practice and teachings.Buddhist teachings are often shrouded in language that is not always easy to understand. The teachings in this book are for ordinary people. They originally appeared as articles in the Decorah, Iowa newspaper. They are human life stories. I hope they will speak to you. They are Zen Seeds for Fallow Ground.
Download or read book Seeds From a Birch Tree written by Clark Strand and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A respected Zen Buddhist presents haiku--a seventeen-line poem arranged in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables--as a writing meditation and spiritual path which opens the reader to the experience of nature. Divided into three parts, the book follows the author's passage from haiku novice to a place of understanding haiku and himself.
Download or read book Essays in Zen Buddhism written by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Zen Buddhism written by Daisetsz Teitaro Suzuki and published by 遇光書林. This book was released on 2023-11-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an "Essay in Zen Buddhism" published by D. T. Suzuki in 1927.Its source material is a text from the Gutenberg Project.This book is a simple introduction to Zen Buddhism and its higher concept, Mahayana Buddhism. Before the text, the editor, Takahisa Kanai, wrote a preface, "Introduction to Buddhism". Zen is the great way of Buddhism. It is a way of sitting quietly and trying to achieve a deep awakening of wisdom through meditation. This awakening is not exclusive to the individual. One's awakening awakens others. It is an act of altruism that brings happiness to others. This is why Zen is said to be the main gateway to Buddhism. Please use these passages as clues to gain profound wisdom. Let's seek Nirvana through D.T.'s kind guidance, which is his altruistic service to us.
Download or read book Zen Buddhism written by Daisetz T. Suzuki and published by Harmony. This book was released on 1996-07-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other figure in history has played a bigger part in opening the West to Buddhism than the eminent Zen author, D.T. Suzuki, and in this reissue of his best work readers are given the very heart of Zen teaching. Zen Buddhism, which sold more than 125,000 as an Anchor paperback after its publication in 1956, includes a basic historical background as well as a thorough overview of the techniques for Zen practice. Concepts and terminology such as satori, zazen, and koans, as well as the various elements of this philosophy are all given clear explanations. But while Suzuki takes nothing for granted in the reader's understanding of the fundamentals, he does not give a merely rudimentary overview. Each of the essays included here, particularly those on the unconscious mind and the relation of Zen to Western philosophy, go far beyond other sources for their penetrating insights and timeless wisdom. What is most important about D.T. Suzuki's work, however--and what comes across so powerfully in these selections--is his unparalleled ability to communicate the experiential aspect of Zen. The intensity here with which Zen philosophy comes to life is without parallel in the canon of Buddhist literature. Suzuki stands apart from all teachers before or since because of his exceptional ability to eloquently capture in words the seemingly inexpressible essence of Zen.
Download or read book Women Living Zen written by Paula Kane Robinson Arai and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many Buddhists have made concessions to contradictory religious and social expectations during the twentieth century, these Zen nuns spent much of the century advancing their traditional monastic values by fighting for and winning reforms of the sect's misogynist regulations."--BOOK JACKET.
