Tag: Zen

The Discourse on the Inexhaustible Lamp of the Zen School


Free Download The Discourse on the Inexhaustible Lamp of the Zen School By Torei Enji, Daibi of Unkan, Yoko Okuda
1996 | 564 Pages | ISBN: 0804830878 | PDF | 42 MB
Based on the teachings of the great Zen Master Hakuin Zenji, The Discourse on the Inexhaustible Lamp of the Zen School is an essential guide to Rinzai Zen training. It was written by Torei Enji Zenji (1720-1792), Hakuin’s dharma successor. In this book, Master Torei begins by providing a concise history of the Rinzai school and lineage. He then details all the important aspects of Zen practice, most notably great faith, great doubt, and great determination. He also provides explanations of koan study and zazen (meditation) as a means of attaining true satori (enlightenment). This edition includes extensive commentary by Master Daibi, providing both essential background information and clarification of several Buddhist concepts unfamiliar to the general reader. The result is an invaluable record of traditional Zen training.

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Nothing Is Hidden The Psychology of Zen Koans [Audiobook]


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English | September 04, 2020 | ASIN: B08H7Q86V4 | M4B@62 kbps | 7h 50m | 214.16 MB
Author: Barry Magid
Narrator: Barry Magid

In this inspiring and incisive offering, Barry Magid uses the language of modern psychology and psychotherapy to illuminate one of Buddhism’s most powerful and often mysterious technologies: the Zen koan. What’s more, Magid also uses the koans to expand upon the insights of psychology (especially self-psychology and relational psychotherapy) and open for the listener new perspectives on the functioning of the human mind and heart.

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Ending the Pursuit of Happiness A Zen Guide [Audiobook]


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English | July 22, 2013 | ASIN: B00E3A13HM | M4B@62 kbps | 5h 28m | 149.49 MB
Author: Barry Magid
Narrator: Joe O’Neill

This new book from Zen teacher, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and critical favorite, Barry Magid, inspires us to outgrow the impossible pursuit of happiness, and instead make peace with the perfection of the way things are. Including ourselves! Using wryly gentle prose, Magid invites readers to consider the notion that our certainty that we are broken may be turning our pursuit of happiness into a source of more suffering. He takes an unusual look at our secret practices (what we’re really doing, when we say "practicing"), "curative fantasies," and our ideals of what spiritual practices will do for us.

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Zen Body-Being An Enlightened Approach to Physical Skill, Grace, and Power [Audiobook]


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English | ISBN: 9798889840121 | 2023 | 6 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Peter Ralston, Laura Ralston
Narrator: Toby Sheets

A program of "physical education" for martial arts practitioners and anyone interested in body improvement. Using simple, clear language to demystify the Zen mindset, he draws on more than three decades of experience teaching students and apprentices worldwide who have applied his body-being approach. More of a transformative guide than a specific list of exercises devoted to any particular physical approach, Zen Body-Being explains how to create a state of mental control, enhanced feeling-awareness, correct structural alignment, increased spatial acuity, and even a greater interactive presence. Exercises are simple, often involving feeling-imagery and meditative awareness, which have a profound and sometimes instant effect. Where similar guides teach audiences what to do, this book teaches audiences how to be.

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Zen Pencils Cartoon Quotes from Inspirational Folks


Free Download Gavin Aung Than, "Zen Pencils: Cartoon Quotes from Inspirational Folks"
English | 2014 | pages: 175 | ISBN: 1449457959 | PDF | 212,1 mb
Zen Pencils is an exciting and unique new comic form that takes inspirational and famous quotations and adapts them into graphic stories. From icons like Confucius, Marie Curie, and Henry David Thoreau, to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge, to contemporary notables like Ira Glass, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Neil Gaiman–their words are turned into sometimes heartwarming, sometimes sobering stories by cartoonist Gavin Aung Than. Be inspired, motivated, educated, and laugh as you read famous words as never before!

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Japan from Anime to Zen Quick Takes on Culture, Art, History, Food… and More


Free Download David Watts Barton, "Japan from Anime to Zen: Quick Takes on Culture, Art, History, Food… and More"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 161172063X | 304 pages | AZW3 / MOBI | 1.7 MB
This friendly guide offers concise but detailed demystifications of more than 85 aspects of ancient and modern Japan. It can be read in sequence, or just dipped into, depending on the moment’s need. Explanations go much deeper than a typical travel guide and cover 1,500 years of history and culture, everything from geisha to gangsters, haiku to karaoke, the sun goddess to the shogunate . . . and anime to Zen.

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