The Irritating Zen Master
The Irritating Zen Master

Author: Graham Norman

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-10-23

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 0244041946

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Zen Master Udo is really irritating, and dangerous too when the razors fly but you can you love him? Well, maybe, perhaps, after enough Fiery Jack to blow your brains onto the ceiling. His pupil, Crudo Bhappat, is never sure but at least he has the consolation of being married to the lovely Jasmintha and owns a fine donkey for a pet. And he is a better footballer than Udo and has gorgeous hair. But, somehow Udo, Zen Master extraordinaire, always has the upper hand, the last word, the wise punch line. Or does he? Is he simply an aggressive misogynist with a few good wrestling moves? Or is he the cleverest man in Aberdabubajerstan? Do we really care? Travel the Silk Road to China, er, possibly, to find out.

Zen Masters Of China
Zen Masters Of China

Author: Richard Bryan McDaniel

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Published: 2012-09-10

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1462910505

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Zen Masters of China presents more than 300 traditional Zen stories and koans, far more than any other collection. Retelling them in their proper place in Zen's historical journey through Chinese Buddhist culture, it also tells a larger story: how, in taking the first step east from India to China, Buddhism began to be Zen. The stories of Zen are unlike any other writing, religious or otherwise. Used for centuries by Zen teachers as aids to bring about or deepen the experience of awakening, they have a freshness that goes beyond religious practice and a mystery and authenticity that appeal to a wide range of readers. Placed in chronological order, these stories tell the story of Zen itself, how it traveled from West to East with each Zen master to the next, but also how it was transformed in that journey, from an Indian practice to something different in Chinese Buddhism (Ch'an) and then more different still in Japan (Zen). The fact that its transmission was so human, from teacher to student in a long chain from West to East, meant that the cultures it passed through inevitably changed it. Zen Masters of China is first and foremost a collection of mind-bending Zen stories and their wisdom. More than that, without academic pretensions or baggage, it recounts the genealogy of Zen Buddhism in China and, through koan and story, illuminates how Zen became what it is today.

The Zen Master's Dance
The Zen Master's Dance

Author: Jundo Cohen

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-10-20

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1614296464

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Zen Master's Dance makes some of Zen’s subtlest teaching deeply personal and freshly accessible. Eihei Dogen—the thirteenth-century Japanese Zen Master of peerless depth and subtlety—heard the music of the universe that sounds as all events and places, people, things, and spaces. He experienced reality as a great dance moving through time, coming to life in the thoughts and acts of all beings. It is a most special dance, the dance that the whole of reality is dancing, with nothing left out. All beings are dancing, and reality is dancing as all beings. In The Zen Master’s Dance, Jundo Cohen takes us deep into the mind of Master Dogen—and shows us how to join in the great and intimate dance of the universe. Through fresh translations and sparkling teaching, Cohen opens up for us a new way to read one of Buddhism’s most remarkable spiritual geniuses.

The Great Zen Master Ta Hui
The Great Zen Master Ta Hui

Author: Osho

Publisher: Fivestar

Published: 2023-08-01

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13:

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The great Zen teacher Ta Hui comes from the same lineage as Bodhidharma. He was born four hundred years after Bodhidharma had left for the Himalayas, to disappear into the eternal ice, the eternal silence there. I have called Ta Hui the great Zen teacher -- not a master ... it has to be explained to you clearly. The master is one who is enlightened. but sometimes it happens that the master may be enlightened, but is not articulate enough to give expression to what he has known. That is a totally different art.

The Tao of You
The Tao of You

Author: J. Kyle Howard

Publisher: Arizen Phoenix Publishing, LLC

Published: 2010-05

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0976414104

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There comes a moment when you must take a step back to create a new vision and destination for your life. In the pages of this book, you will receive some insights and perspectives to help you bring this new vision into better focus. With these insights, you will maximize your current opportunities and prospects. More importantly, you will have the means to create, develop and nurture your life's greatest successes. It is for you that this manual was written. See, the truth is, this works! My own life is the evidence. So I am making it easier for you to experience the kind of magic and overnight miracles that this manual is producing for people in over 87 countries. The valuable and lasting lessons you will receive today will bring you the freedom to be, do, and have whatever you want. This manual can help you attain all that is important to you, to become all that you were created to be, and to become the uniquely wonderful person living the wonderful life that is meant for you. This manual contains proven methods used from over 2500 years of human civilization upon which to build the foundation of your life. It is from this foundation that you can have everything you truly desire.

Practical Zen
Practical Zen

Author: Julian Daizan Skinner

Publisher: Singing Dragon

Published: 2017-06-21

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0857013211

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Zen master Julian Daizan Skinner guides the reader through a sequence of meditation techniques that can safely lead even a complete novice through to advanced levels. Based on his own long experience of the Rinzai Zen tradition, as taught by the great seventeenth-century masters, Hakuin and Bankei, Daizan highlights the key points for success and addresses the pitfalls. Structured around a traditional teaching framework called "The two wings of a bird," Daizan clearly lays-out how these methods build and combine to create a transformative and sustaining practice. The book contains an extremely useful section describing the experiences of western practitioners who have successfully applied this framework within the pressures of modern life. The final section features key source texts in translation, making the book a complete introduction and guide to Zen meditation. The work of a master, the book speaks at a deep level, with utmost simplicity.

Zen Masters
Zen Masters

Author: Steven Heine

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-04-22

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0199798850

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Extending their successful series of collections on Zen Buddhism, Heine and Wright present a fifth volume, on what may be the most important topic of all - Zen Masters. Following two volumes on Zen literature (Zen Classics and The Zen Canon) and two volumes on Zen practice (The Koan and Zen Ritual) they now propose a volume on the most significant product of the Zen tradition - the Zen masters who have made this kind of Buddhism the most renowned in the world by emphasizing the role of eminent spiritual leaders and their function in establishing centers, forging lineages, and creating literature and art. Zen masters in China, and later in Korea and Japan, were among the cultural leaders of their times. Stories about their comportment and powers circulated widely throughout East Asia. In this volume ten leading Zen scholars focus on the image of the Zen master as it has been projected over the last millennium by the classic literature of this tradition. Each chapter looks at a single prominent master. Authors assess the master's personality and charisma, his reported behavior and comportment, his relationships with teachers, rivals and disciplines, lines of transmission, primary teachings, the practices he emphasized, sayings and catch-phrases associated with him, his historical and social context, representations and icons, and enduring influences.

Meditations of a Zen Master: English-Korean Parallel Text Edition
Meditations of a Zen Master: English-Korean Parallel Text Edition

Author: D Bannon

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-10-21

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1300327405

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Zen Master Beopjeong spent over thirty years on South Korea's bestseller lists. Praised as "one of the great spiritual leaders of our time" (Korea Herald) and "one of the most popular and influential religious leaders in Korea" (Korea Times) who "left immeasurable teachings to all of us" (President of South Korea Lee Myung-bak), Beopjeong wrote on the foibles of modern life and the joys of nature and simplicity. His direct uncomplicated prose continues to appeal to new generations of readers. Beopjeong's musings and insights are presented in English-Korean parallel text. Illustrated with Korean art throughout, each page in translation is mirrored by its original Korean hangul script on the facing page. The translator, D. Bannon, is a member of the American Translators Association (ATA). "A true work of art." --Tom Larsen, YA Entertainment. "An incredible translation." --SeungHan Chung, MBC America. "A a worthy consideration for Buddhist and Spirituality collections. Recommended." --Midwest Book Review

Master Ma's Ordinary Mind
Master Ma's Ordinary Mind

Author: Fumio Yamada

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-04-11

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1614293058

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“Ordinary Mind is itself the Way,” said Mazu Daoyi. See what this master has to say—and discover the extraordinary nature of your own “ordinary” life. In Master Ma’s Ordinary Mind, you will learn the true nature of enlightenment from one of Zen’s great teachers. Master Mazu’s teachings help us to see how our own “ordinary mind,” just as it is, also functions as the mind of enlightenment—the very expression of buddhanature. Master Mazu’s classic sayings, with all their timeless insight, are here presented and unpacked for beginner and advanced practitioners alike. Each chapter offers John Bellando’s crystal-clear translation of one of Mazu’s classic dialogues and then follows it with Dr. Fumio Yamada’s gentle, encouraging commentary. Together, they guide us through the many layers of meaning in these koans, showing us what Mazu can mean for us today. Includes an appendix on Mazu's life by Andy Ferguson, author of Zen's Chinese Heritage.

Mystics and Zen Masters
Mystics and Zen Masters

Author: Thomas Merton

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 1999-11-29

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1429944005

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Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts-early monasticism, Russian Orthodox spirituality, the Shakers, and Zen Buddhism-with characteristic Western directness. Merton not only studied these religions from the outside but grasped them by empathy and living participation from within. "All these studies," wrote Merton, "are united by one central concern: to understand various ways in which men of different traditions have conceived the meaning and method of the 'way' which leads to the highest levels of religious or of metaphysical awareness."