epub |eng | 2019-10-08 | Author:Bonnie Myotai Treace [Treace, Bonnie Myotai]

Posture Posture in zazen involves both the body and the mind. The lotus position (legs crossed onto opposite thighs) has been called the essence of zazen—in part because it is ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Muso Kokushi [Kokushi, Muso]

Orientation An ancient Zen master said that Zen meditation is of no benefit if the application of mind is unclear. This does not mean that it is useless for unlearned ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Tanahashi, Kazuaki [Tanahashi, Kazuaki]

NANYUE, Priest Huairang, Zen Master Dahui, went to study with Huineng, the Sixth Ancestor, and was his attendant for fifteen years. He received the way and the craft, just like ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Soko Morinaga

routine in the monastery THE USUAL DAY begins at 3:00 A.M. with the sound of a ringing handbell and a voice shouting, “Kaijo!” (“Get up!”). The monks jump out of ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:David Gold & Bart Marshall [Gold, David]

Chapter Thirteen Citizen Rose A few months after moving in with Rose I received a letter welcoming me to the West Virginia Bar Association. I had decided to open my ...

epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Harvey

Be a culture vulture. Are there any galleries or museums near to your work which you are yet to visit? Going during the week will often mean that it is ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-11 | Author:Barbara O'Brien

ZEN LEAVES CHINA: KOREA AND VIETNAM SOMETIME in the seventh century two Buddhist monks from the Korean Peninsula set forth on a pilgrimage to China. They traveled on foot through ...

mobi |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche & Bill Chapko & Thomas Common

369 Juxtapositions in us.-Must we not acknowledge to ourselves, we artists, that there is a strange discrepancy in us; that on the one hand our taste, and on the other ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-25 | Author:James H. Austin

Item: The ACH nerve cells in the brainstem are highly resistant to the toxic side effects of NO'. In fact, ACH nerve cells cultured from the parabrachial nuclei are some ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-08-30 | Author:Ralston, Peter [Ralston, Peter]

What Is “For-Itself”? 16:16 If everything is assessed by us in terms of its value and meaning, then what use do we have for something known only for itself? Without ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2010-03-10 | Author:Leighton, Taigen Dan [Leighton, Taigen Dan]

79. Whenever Zen Master Luzu Baoyun saw a monk coming, he would immediately face the wall.1474 Alone my teacher walked the path of turning the self, Beyond difference and sameness ...

azw3 |eng | 2005-06-10 | Author:Yamada, Koun [Yamada, Koun]

THE CASE One day Tokusan kept asking Ryūtan for instruction till nightfall. Ryūtan finally said, “The night is late. Why don’t you go to bed.” Tokusan thanked him, made his ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2007-12-01 | Author:Mitchell, Stephen [Mitchell, Stephen]

52. Lin-Chi's KATZ Whenever Zen Master Dok Sahn was asked a question, he would answer only by hitting the questioner. Zen Master Ku-ji would answer only by raising one finger, ...

azw3 |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Zen Master So Sahn

54 When studying Buddhist sutras, if you do not reflect deeply on your own mind at the same time, you could study the entire 84,000-volume canon of the Buddha’s words ...

azw3 |eng | 2009-03-01 | Author:Pine, Red [Pine, Red]

Master K’uan-jung and Third Patriarch’s Stupa After nearly an hour, she stopped. But she wasn’t done. She heated the air in four glass cups, then placed them lid-side down along ...