The Ten Bulls (also known as the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures) is one of the most celebrated teaching sequences in Zen Buddhism: ten short verses, traditionally paired with images, that trace a seeker's search for an ox representing the true, awakened mind.
The Path to Happiness: Buddhist Wisdom for Everyday Life offers a practical introduction to a central question in Buddhism: how can we reduce the suffering we add to experience through attachment, aversion, comparison, and the need for approval?
The world's greatest spiritual leader teams up with a psychiatrist to share, for the first time, how he achieved his hard-won serenity and how we can find the same inner peace.
Drawing on her experiences as a Buddhist teacher in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, Annabelle Zinser developed meditation and mindfulness practices for a variety of everyday situations and the transformation of emotional challenges.
Draws on source texts of the Tao Te Ching and the Chuang-tzu for ways to achieve skills effortlessly through unity with the Tao Explains how Taoism is a spiritual technology for deprogramming ourselves from socialization and dissolving the ego Explores concepts of wu-wei (nonaction) and xiaoyao you (free and easy wandering in oneness) in order to realize our unfiltered true natureGiving readers a fresh take on the ancient philosophy of oneness, while at the same time restoring Taoisms original teachings, Jason Gregory shows how to effortlessly align with the Tao.
Drawing on her experiences as a Buddhist teacher in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, Annabelle Zinser developed meditation and mindfulness practices for a variety of everyday situations and the transformation of emotional challenges.
Three independent traditions — 2,500 years of Buddhist contemplative practice, 18th-century Humean philosophy, and 21st-century neuroscience — converged on the same uncomfortable conclusion: the "e;self"e; you take yourself to be is not what's actually there.
While many experts point to the enormous complexity in addressing issues ranging from the destruction of ecosystems to the loss of millions of species, Thich Nhat Hanh identifies one key issue as having the potential to create a tipping point.
While many experts point to the enormous complexity in addressing issues ranging from the destruction of ecosystems to the loss of millions of species, Thich Nhat Hanh identifies one key issue as having the potential to create a tipping point.
The Buddha gives a systematic overview of his three great cycles of teachings (tridharmacakra), explains what his intent was in each of these cycles, and declares this foundational third-cycle sutra to be a presentation of his definitive intent.
Explores the culminating instruction of the Buddha in the Satipatthana Sutta to breathe through the whole body Teaches you how to alter your physiology to move beyond the static consciousness of mindfulness to a natural, spontaneous state of embodied awareness Provides instruction and somatic koans for practicing the core principles of radiant mindfulnessawakening the body, liberating the breath, and opening up to vision and soundDrawing on the Buddhas teachings, Will Johnson provides a daily practice that moves beyond the static consciousness of mindfulness to a natural, spontaneous state of embodied awareness.
'I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky'These simple, inspiring writings by three medieval Buddhist monks offer peace and wisdom amid the world's uncertainties, and are an invitation to relinquish earthly desires and instead taste life in the moment.
The first English-language translation (with rich historical introduction and extensive annotation) of a key group of Indian Buddhist tantric texts that have had profound influence on the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
This beautiful keepsake edition of His Holiness's classic essay is updated and expanded for today's world, with a new foreword from Richard Gere and beautiful, intimate photographs of His Holiness.
In this authoritative account of one of the most important practices in Tibetan Buddhism, Lama Zopa shows us how facing the reality of death and impermanence can transform and enrich our life.
Explores the Tibetan Buddhist Spiral Dragon practices and how they can accelerate spiritual development as well as clarify ones life purpose Explains energy exercises, mantras, and mudras to help resolve acute and chronic physical ailments and optimize emotional health Shows how Spiral Dragon practices can transform how one absorbs and channels vital energy through the body, meridians, and consciousnessEmerging as a terma treasure teaching, the Spiral Dragon practices revealed in this book are attuned to resolve great spiritual challenges confronting us now.
The interest in all things Japan, as well as the increasing effort to center both physical and mental health as a core value of any flourishing society, leads to the nexus explored in this book, Missoku, a unique breathing method that has been handed down through Japanese Zen tradition.
Musings and autobiographically informed commentary on the human condition through the lens of the Kannon-gyochapter 25 of the Lotus Sutraconnecting Zen and Pure Land Buddhism through the practice of venerating and chanting the names of buddhas and bodhisattvas.
The power and promise of enlightened altruism, a life lived for the benefit of all beings, is on full display in this collection of Buddhist works on the heroic way of the bodhisattva.
A classic Indian work on the Mahayana Buddhist philosophy of emptiness by one of its greatest exponents is unlocked for contemporary readers in this new translation with lucid verse-by-verse explanations.
Experience for the first time in English the aural lineage of the Great Perfection Dzogchen tradition, expertly brought to life by the practitioner and translator Acarya Malcolm Smith.
Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's leading garden designer, is at once Japan's most highly acclaimed landscape architect and an 18th-generation Zen Buddhist priest, presiding over daily ceremonies at the Kenkoji Temple in Yokohama.
Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's leading garden designer, is at once Japan's most highly acclaimed landscape architect and an 18th-generation Zen Buddhist priest, presiding over daily ceremonies at the Kenkoji Temple in Yokohama.
In The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion, the Buddha and his disciple Subhuti teach us how to cut through our dualistic ways of looking at the world in order to have a deeper contact with the wondrous reality that is inside us and all around us.
In The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion, the Buddha and his disciple Subhuti teach us how to cut through our dualistic ways of looking at the world in order to have a deeper contact with the wondrous reality that is inside us and all around us.
Masao Abe: A Zen Life of Dialogue is a compilation of essays that cover the life and work of Masao Abe, perhaps one of the greatest Zen Buddhist communicators of the twentieth century.
