Category: Books
And how does a monk live contemplating the body in the body? Herein, monks, a monk, having gone to the … History Resources The Practice Chöd and Dzogchen are …
There are a plethora of things that one might do/see/experience/understand while attending a sesshin. However, I wanted to extract just … Exercises of yoga by Gabriela Sobel zen nun …
If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. … Books Resources The Practice Zen by Roy Melvyn …
Excerpts from To you by Sawaki Kôdô Rôshi * Translated from Japanese by Jesse Haasch and Muhô. The complete book … Masters Mondo Stories Zen *by Norman Fischer (originally …
A person who discovers the direction of his life in zazen, who vows and at the same time lives by … *Excerpt from the book Opening the Hand of …
The Tripitaka is a collection of holy writings organized into three collections or baskets to include the rules for monastics (The Vinaya), the actual teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni (The …
From ancient time, all traditions have set up “paths” of spiritual development. The Zen Oxherding Pictures show the passage from initiation – the search for self – to a maturation of insight, …
ANATTĀ – THE NOT-SELF CHARACTERISTIC Buddha said: “Physical form, monks, is transient, and whatever is transient is unsatisfactory; whatever is unsatisfactory, that is anattā (non-self); and whatever is non-self, …
Taisen Deshimaru (Yasuo was his given first name) was born in on November 20, 1914, near the town of Saga, on the isle of Kyushu. His mother was a …
The kimono is representative of Japan’s culture and heritage, and there are different types of kimono worn to complement every season and occasion. Originally, “kimono” was the Japanese word …
