Opening the Hand of Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Opening the Hand of Thought write by Kosho Uchiyama. This book was released on 2005-06-10. Opening the Hand of Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For over thirty years, Opening the Hand of Thought has offered an introduction to Zen Buddhism and meditation unmatched in clarity and power. This is the revised edition of Kosho Uchiyama's singularly incisive classic. This new edition contains even more useful material: new prefaces, an index, and extended endnotes, in addition to a revised glossary. As Jisho Warner writes in her preface, Opening the Hand of Thought "goes directly to the heart of Zen practice... showing how Zen Buddhism can be a deep and life-sustaining activity." She goes on to say, "Uchiyama looks at what a person is, what a self is, how to develop a true self not separate from all things, one that can settle in peace in the midst of life." By turns humorous, philosophical, and personal, Opening the Hand of Thought is above all a great book for the Buddhist practitioner. It's a perfect follow-up for the reader who has read Zen Meditation in Plain English and is especially useful for those who have not yet encountered a Zen teacher.
Approach to Zen
Approach to Zen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Approach to Zen write by Kōshō Uchiyama. This book was released on 1973. Approach to Zen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo write by Kosho Uchiyama Roshi. This book was released on 2014-11-04. Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Abandon your treasured delusions and hit the road with one of the most important Zen masters of twentieth-century Japan. Eschewing the entrapments of vanity, power, and money, "Homeless" Kodo Sawaki Roshi refused to accept a permanent position as a temple abbot, despite repeated offers. Instead, he lived a traveling, "homeless" life, going from temple to temple, student to student, teaching and instructing and never allowing himself to stray from his chosen path. He is responsible for making Soto Zen available to the common people outside of monasteries. His teachings are short, sharp, and powerful. Always clear, often funny, and sometimes uncomfortably close to home, they jolt us into awakening. Kosho Uchiyama expands and explains his teacher's wisdom with his commentary. Trained in Western philosophy, he draws parallels between Zen teachings and the Bible, Descartes, and Pascal. Shohaku Okumura has also added his own commentary, grounding his teachers’ power and sagacity for the contemporary, Western practitioner. Experience the timeless, practical wisdom of three generations of Zen masters.
How to Cook Your Life
How to Cook Your Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Cook Your Life write by Dogen. This book was released on 2005-11-08. How to Cook Your Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom
Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom write by . This book was released on 2018-01-30. Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Insightful commentary on a beloved ancient philosopher of Zen by a beloved contemporary master of Zen. Famously insightful and famously complex, Eihei Dogen’s writings have been studied and puzzled over for hundreds of years. In Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom, Kosho Uchiyama, beloved twentieth-century Zen teacher addresses himself head-on to unpacking Dogen’s wisdom from three fascicles (or chapters) of his monumental Shobogenzo for a modern audience. The fascicles presented here from Shobogenzo, or Treasury of the True Dharma Eye include “Shoaku Makusa” or “Refraining from Evil,” “Maka Hannya Haramitsu” or “Practicing Deepest Wisdom,” and “Uji” or “Living Time.” Tom Wright and Shohaku Okumura lovingly translate Dogen’s penetrating words and Uchiyama’s thoughtful commentary on each piece. At turns poetic and funny, always insightful, this is Zen wisdom for the ages.
