The little blue book on Zen of the Fundamental Realm

The little blue book on Zen of the Fundamental Realm
Author: Pete Jalesh
Publisher: BookRix
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2012-05-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3864796563

Advanced Zen, meditation themes, Zen poetry, transcendental meditation, Koans, a book in a Zen series following the introductory book titled "Zen Handbook"

The little orange book on Zen of the Realization Realm

The little orange book on Zen of the Realization Realm
Author: Peter Jalesh
Publisher: BookRix
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2012-05-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 386479644X

Advanced Zen, Chinese philosophy on emptiness, Meditation on impermanence, zen poetry; this book in a continuation of the previous Zen book in the series titled "The little blue book on Zen of the Fundamental Realm"

Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record

Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record
Author: Thomas Cleary
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2002-12-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0834828839

The Blue Cliff Record is a classic text of Zen Buddhism, designed to assist in the activation of dormant human potential. The core of this extraordinary work is a collection of one hundred traditional citations and stories, selected for their ability to bring about insight and enlightenment. These vignettes are known as gongan in Chinese and koan in Japanese. Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record is a fresh translation featuring newly translated commentary from two of the greatest Zen masters of early modern Japan, Hakuin Ekaku (1685–1768) of the Rinzai sect of Zen and Tenkei Denson (1648–1735) of the Soto sect of Zen. This translation and commentary on The Blue Cliff Record sheds new light on the meaning of this central Zen text.

The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-chi

The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-chi
Author: Yixuan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1999
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780231114851

Renowned scholar Burton Watson's translation exactingly depicts the life and teachings of the great ninth-century Chinese Zen master Lin-chi, one of the most highly regarded of the T'ang period masters.

The Book of Equanimity

The Book of Equanimity
Author: Gerry Shishin Wick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2005-03-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 086171802X

The Book of Equanimity contains the first-ever complete English language commentary on one of the most beloved classic collections of Zen teaching stories (koans), making them vividly relevant to spiritual seekers and Zen students in the twenty-first century. Continually emphasizing koans as effective tools to discover and experience the deepest truths of our being, Wick brings the art of the koan to life for those who want to practice wisdom in their daily lives. The koan collection Wick explores here is highly esteemed as both literature and training material in the Zen tradition, in which koan-study is one of two paths a practitioner might take. This collection is used for training in many Zen centers in the Americas and in Europe but has never before been available with commentary from a contemporary Zen master. Wick's Book of Equanimity includes new translations of the preface, main case and verse for each koan, and modern commentaries on the koans by Wick himself.

Going Bovine

Going Bovine
Author: Libba Bray
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2009
Genre: Automobile travel
ISBN: 0385733976

Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Author: Julian Jaynes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2000-08-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0547527543

National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry

How to Cook Your Life

How to Cook Your Life
Author: Dogen
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2005-11-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0834824329

This modern-day commentary on Dogen’s Instructions for a Zen Cook reveals how everyday activities—like cooking—can be incorporated into our spiritual practice In the thirteenth century, Zen master Dogen—perhaps the most significant of all Japanese philosophers, and the founder of the Japanese Soto Zen sect—wrote a practical manual of Instructions for the Zen Cook. In drawing parallels between preparing meals for the Zen monastery and spiritual training, he reveals far more than simply the rules and manners of the Zen kitchen; he teaches us how to "cook," or refine our lives. In this volume Kosho Uchiyama Roshi undertakes the task of elucidating Dogen's text for the benefit of modern-day readers of Zen. Taken together, his translation and commentary truly constitute a "cookbook for life," one that shows us how to live with an unbiased mind in the midst of our workaday world.