Download or read book Zen Master Next Door written by Edward Kardos and published by Green Dragon Books. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These modern day parables in Zen Master Next Door send positive messages that are simple and inspiring. Based in the truth, they are an insightful means to explore our many relationships and how they touch our soul. Relevant and timely, these stories underscore our yearning to live an inspired life and they show that deep-rooted and ancient ideals are as mainstream as our exchanges with our neighbor next door. These parables are gentle but strong. They embrace but let go. They are simple and complex just like our own lives. They are, of course, parables. What others are saying about this book: What an inspiring way to learn about our very soul. These modern day parables in Zen Master Next Door are compelling and left me wanting more. - Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind
Download or read book The Dude and the Zen Master written by Jeff Bridges and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect gift for fans of The Big Lebowski, Jeff Bridges's "The Dude", and anyone who could use more Zen in their lives. Zen Master Bernie Glassman compares Jeff Bridges’s iconic role in The Big Lebowski to a Lamed-Vavnik: one of the men in Jewish mysticism who are “simple and unassuming,” and “so good that on account of them God lets the world go on.” Jeff puts it another way. “The wonderful thing about the Dude is that he’d always rather hug it out than slug it out.” For more than a decade, Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges and his Buddhist teacher, renowned Roshi Bernie Glassman, have been close friends. Inspiring and often hilarious, The Dude and the Zen Master captures their freewheeling dialogue and remarkable humanism in a book that reminds us of the importance of doing good in a difficult world.
Download or read book The Universe Next Door written by James W. Sire and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fifth edition of his classic work, Sire offers additional student-friendly features to his introductions to theism, deism, naturalism, Marxism, nihilism, existentialism, Eastern monism, New Age philosophy, and postmodernism.
Download or read book The Hidden Lamp written by Florence Caplow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hidden Lamp is a collection of one hundred koans and stories of Buddhist women from the time of the Buddha to the present day. This revolutionary book brings together many teaching stories that were hidden for centuries, unknown until this volume. These stories are extraordinary expressions of freedom and fearlessness, relevant for men and women of any time or place. In these pages we meet nuns, laywomen practicing with their families, famous teachers honored by emperors, and old women selling tea on the side of the road. Each story is accompanied by a reflection by a contemporary woman teacher--personal responses that help bring the old stories alive for readers today--and concluded by a final meditation for the reader, a question from the editors meant to spark further rumination and inquiry. These are the voices of the women ancestors of every contemporary Buddhist.
Download or read book All for Excellence in Education written by Dr. Malick Kouyate and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is written for parents, community leaders and all other educators at all levels. Its main purpose is to inspire all children in general and all open-minded teens, adolescents and young adults in particular to know why and how to enjoy and share and celebrate their 4 deepest educational needs for: *belonging, *relative Independence, *dialogical encounter between belonging and relative independence *self-navigation
Download or read book Dogen the Zen Master A Search and a Fulfillment written by Osho and published by Fivestar. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dogen used to say, ”It was a great opportunity that both the people who could have distracted me, who loved me and I loved them ... and that was the danger. They died at the right time. I am infinitely grateful to them just because they died at the right time without destroying me.”
Download or read book At This Moment written by Bill Jarvis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes about my spiritual experiences - a description of what happened as I tried moving towards awareness of an awakened spirit. This is a personal account, drawn from a wide range of sources, mostly what are described as mystical traditions. A ramble through ideas that have seemed most important to me.
Download or read book Street Zen written by David Schneider and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drag queen. Prostitute. Drug addict. American bodhisattva. These words describe the unlikely persona of Issan Dorsey, one of the most beloved teachers to emerge in American Zen. From his early days as a gorgeous female impersonator to the LSD experiences that set him on the spiritual path, Issan's life was never conventional. In 1989, after twenty years of Zen practice, he became the Founding Abbot of San Francisco's Hartford Street Zen Center, where he established Maitri Hospice for AIDS patients. Featuring Bernie Glassman's foreword to the second edition, as well as a new foreword by Koshin Paley Ellison, Street Zen paints a vivid portrait of a teacher whose creativity, honesty, joy, and compassion awakened new possibilities for American Buddhism.
Download or read book Dispositional Theories of Knowledge written by Lars Bo Gundersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an original examination of human cognition, arguing that cognitive skills are dispositional in nature. Opposing influential views in modern Anglo-American philosophy, Gundersen starts from the received premis that knowledge is analyzable in terms of belief, justification and truth, and goes on to clarify and improve on these ingredients' exact nature and internal association. Exploring a wide range of arguments offered by influential contributors in the field of modal epistemology, Gundersen argues that external conditions are secondary in developing and cultivating cognitive competence and that the fulcrum of the cognitive investigation is the fascinating interplay between and cultivation of internal cognitive powers.
Download or read book Zen Master Tales written by Peter Haskel and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively collection of folk tales and Buddhist teaching stories from four noted premodern Japanese Zen masters: Taigu Sôchiku (1584–1669), Sengai Gibon (1750-1831), Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1769), and Taigu Ryôkan (1758-1831). Zen Master Tales collects never before translated stories of four prominent Zen masters from the Edo period of Japanese history (1603-1868). Drawn from an era that saw the “democratization” of Japanese Zen, these stories paint a picture of robust, funny, and poignant engagement between Zen luminaries and the emergent chоnin or “townsperson” culture of early modern Japan. Here we find Zen monks engaging with samurai, merchants, housewives, entertainers, and farmers. These masters affirmed that the essentials of Zen practice—zazen, koan study, even enlightenment—could be conveyed to all members of Japanese society in ordinary speech, including even comic verse and work songs. Against the backdrop of this rich tableau, Zen Master Tales serves not only as a text for Zen students but also as a wide-ranging window onto the fascinating literary, material, and social history of Edo Japan. In his introduction, translator Peter Haskel explains the history of Zen “stories” from the tradition’s Golden Age in China through the compilation of the classic koan collections and on to the era from which the stories in Zen Master Tales are drawn. What was true of the Chinese tradition, he writes—“its focus on the individual’s ordinary activity as the function, the manifestation of the absolute”—continued in the Japanese context. “Most of these Japanese stories, however unabashedly humorous and at times crude, impart something of the character of the Zen masters involved, whose attainment must be plainly manifest in even the most humble and unlikely of situations.”
Download or read book Rising Star Chef Trilogy written by Louisa Edwards and published by Swerve. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 1227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring Too Hot to Touch, Some Like it Hot, and Hot Under Pressure together for the first time in one delicious e-bundle you won’t be able to stop devouring over and over again! A dash of gorgeous brothers, with a pinch of forbidden romance, and just a hint of undeniable chemistry, the Rising Star Chef trilogy is the perfect recipe for a sizzling romance. TOO HOT TO TOUCH Master Chef—and sinfully attractive—Max Lunden has spent the past few years winning cooking competitions and traveling around the world, picking up cooking techniques as well as beautiful woman. He doesn’t play well with others, but now he’s cooking in the country’s biggest competition alongside Juliet Cavanaugh, a chef he’s known for years who is every bit as passionate as he is. As the attraction simmers between them, can Max and Juliet keep their cool? SOME LIKE IT HOT Sexy, single, and even sweeter than the treats he bakes, pastry chef Danny Lunden is trying to stay focused on the Rising Star Chef competition and not get hot and bothered over the gorgeous woman he keeps running into. Especially since the woman is Eva Jansen: the billionaire heiress in charge of the cooking competition. But when they share a kiss hot enough to start a kitchen fire, they’ll have to break every rule in the cookbook to indulge in their secret craving, because one bite is never enough... HOT UNDER PRESSURE Former Navy cook Henry Beck thought he’d already faced the toughest challenge of his life...until he learns that his competition for the title of Rising Star Chef is the woman he married—then left—ten years ago. But Skye Gladwell wants more than a win over the man who abandoned her: she wants a divorce. So her sexy almost-ex makes a deliciously dangerous proposition: he’ll give into her demands, but if his team wins, Henry wants one last taste of the only woman he’s ever loved...
Download or read book Zen Training written by Katsuki Sekida and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2005-09-13 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering guide to zazen—Zen-style seated meditation—provides practical instructions on how to begin or elevate your practice and progress along the Zen path Zen Training is a comprehensive handbook for zazen, seated meditation practice, and an authoritative presentation of the Zen path. The book marked a turning point in Zen literature in its critical reevaluation of the enlightenment experience, which the author believes has often been emphasized at the expense of other important aspects of Zen training. In addition, Zen Training goes beyond the first flashes of enlightenment to explore how one lives as well as trains in Zen. The author also draws many significant parallels between Zen and Western philosophy and psychology, comparing traditional Zen concepts with the theories of being and cognition of such thinkers as Heidegger and Husserl.
Download or read book Zen Antics written by Thomas Cleary and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1993-11-23 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Zen masters preserved in the koan literature, the stories retold here are penetratingly simple but with a richness and subtlety that make them worth reading again and again. This collection includes more than one hundred such stories—many appearing here in English for the first time—drawn from a wide variety of sources and involving some of the best-known Zen masters, such as Hakuin, Bankei, and Shosan. Also presented are stories and anecdotes involving famous Zen artists and poets, such as Sengai and Basho.
Download or read book Yoga Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1994-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 30 years, Yoga Journal has been helping readers achieve the balance and well-being they seek in their everyday lives. With every issue,Yoga Journal strives to inform and empower readers to make lifestyle choices that are healthy for their bodies and minds. We are dedicated to providing in-depth, thoughtful editorial on topics such as yoga, food, nutrition, fitness, wellness, travel, and fashion and beauty.
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 Master Avatar Prem Anadi Bunny Rabbit The Third Gives Violin Lessons written by Zen Master Avatar Prem Anadi Bunny Rabbit the Third and published by Dressel Cottage Industries. This book was released on 2013 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Fool written by and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1996-06-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taigu Ryokan (1759-1831) remains one of the most popular figures in Japanese Buddhist history. Despite his religious and artistic sophistication, Ryokan referred to himself as "Great Fool" and refused to place himself within the cultural elite of his age. In contrast to the typical Zen master of his time, who presided over a large monastery, trained students, and produced recondite religious treatises, Ryokan followed a life of mendicancy in the countryside. Instead of delivering sermons, he expressed himself through kanshi (poems composed in classical Chinese) and waka and could typically be found playing with the village children in the course of his daily rounds of begging. Great Fool is the first study in a Western language to offer a comprehensive picture of the legendary poet-monk and his oeuvre. It includes not only an extensive collection of the master's kanshi, topically arranged to facilitate an appreciation of Ryokan's colorful world, but selections of his waka, essays, and letters. The volume also presents for the first time in English the Ryokan zenji kiwa (Curious Accounts of the Zen Master Ryokan), a firsthand source composed by a former student less than sixteen years after Ryokan's death. Although it lacks chronological order, the Curious Account is invaluable for showing how Ryokan was understood and remembered by his contemporaries. It consists of colorful anecdotes and episodes, sketches from Ryokan's everyday life. To further assist the reader, three introductory essays approach Ryokan from the diverse perspectives of his personal history and literary work.
