There is a fine art to presenting complex ideas with simplicity and insight, in a manner that both guides and inspires. In "Taking the Path of Zen" Robert Aitken presents the practice, lifestyle, rationale, and ideology of Zen Buddhism with remarkable clarity. The foundation of Zen is the practice of zazen, or mediation, and Aitken Roshi insists ...
In "Taking the Path of Zen," Robert Aitken provided a concise guide to zazen (Zen meditation) and other aspects of the practice of Zen. In "The Mind of Clover "he addresses the world beyond the zazen cushions, illuminating issues of appropriate personal and social action through an exploration of the philosophical complexities of Zen ethics. ...
America's most senior Zen Roshi presents the "Transcendental Perfections": Giving, Morality, Patience, Zeal, Meditation, Wisdom, Compassion, Aspiration, Spiritual Power, and Knowledge. These 2,000-year-old ideas serve as both methods and goals to develop one's spiritual and moral life. Includes question and answer sections.
Tuck "The Long Road Turns to Joy " in your pocket and turn your walk into a joyful meditation. Thich Nhat Hanh teaches "walking just for walking." Learn to enjoy each step and each breath, to regain peace in difficult moments. Photographs of walking meditation from around the world are included.
A series of meditations in which Aitken pays homage to the great teachers who shaped him, on various topics such as political revolution and ethics, money, power, sexual love in a modern world, death, marriage, Zen practice, and taking pleasure in the everyday world.
"Aitken's title says it all. Encouraging Words will appeal to both beginning and advanced lay Zen students who seek to integrate their spiritual practice into everyday life. Curious readers will be rewarded, too. Here is a teacher both wise and practical in equal measure".--Honolulu Advertiser. Now in paperback.
Zen is famous for koans (called kong-ans in Korean, and in this book), those bizarre and seemingly unanswerable questions Zen masters pose to their students to check their realization (such as "What is the sound of one hand clapping?"). Fear of koans keeps some people from ever giving Zen practice a try. But here, through the experience of seeing ...
In "Zen Master Raven", Robert Aitken, one of America's best-known and most-respected Zen masters, presents an introduction to Zen Buddhist teaching through over 100 lessons told through the stories and voices of animals.
A landmark volume, this workbook makes available for the first time in decades the teachings that were formative to a whole generation of American Zen teachers and students. These teachings have been reorganized and worked into a classic introduction to Zen.
Written 400 years ago, by a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, "The Caigentan" or "Vegetable Roots" has been a fundamental literary guide for hundreds of years, outlining Asian philosophy. This edition, translated by Robert Aitken and Daniel W.Y. Kwok, contains 360 observations of life: its exaggerations, absurdities, grotesqueries, and falsities. Terse ...
For more than four decades, Robert Aitken Roshi has taught thousands of people the Buddhist practice of Zen meditation, and has led hundreds through their practice of the study of traditional koans. He has authored more than a dozen books, including a celebrated appreciation of Basho's haiku; volumes of commentary on sacred texts; works on ethics, ...
"The Dragon Who Never Sleeps is a collection of gathas -- poetic vows for daily living in verse form -- that are similar to prayers. Reciting these gathas can help us to face life's difficulties with understanding and humor. They serve as gentle reminders to live in the present, accept ourselves, and offer joy to others.
The 'Gateless Barrier' is generally acknowledged to be the fundamental koan collection in the literature of Zen. Gathered together by Wu-men (Mumon), a thirteenth-century master of the Lin-chi (Rinzai) school, it is composed of forty-eight koans, or cases, each accompanied by a brief comment and poem by Wu-men.
The author of Taking the Path of Zen and The Mind of Clover--one of the few Western Zen Buddhist masters--offers a collection of specific teachings he has given his own students during the past two decades--a time of volatile cultural and spiritual changes. Includes a glossary, a gathering of important sutras, and an annotated reading list.
The renowned Buddhist monk and peace activist describes the spiritual benefits to be gained from walking when walkers keep their attention on the present and resist obsessing about problems of past and future.
Dialogues between Robert Aitken Roshi, an American Zen master, and Brother David Steindl-Rast, a Roman Catholic monk and hermit. These two friends took a week-long retreat in 1991 on a remote part of Hawaii, in order to compare personal experiences rather than abstract concepts, and explore common ground rather than differences.
This text is a study of Zen, the human mind, and the haiku of Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), one of the greatest Japanese haiku poets. It presents themes from the haiku and from Zen literature, and interprets the relationship between them.
The authors of this useful guide provide a monitoring system to help schools and districts acquire the information they need to achieve their strategic planning, accountability and school-restructuring goals. They describe an ideal, achievable 'model' school and district for the year 2000, indicators of specific features of that school and ways of ...
Opened in 1980, the West Highland Way was Scotland's first Long Distance Route and remains the most popular, with thousands of walkers tackling it each year. It runs from Milngavie on the outskirts of Glasgow to Fort William. The 152km route passes along the east of Loch Lomond, the largest expanse of fresh water in Britain, and across Rannoch ...
Written 400 years ago by a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, one hundred years after Columbus and around the time Shakespeare completed Henry VI, accomplished scholar and philosopher Hong Zicheng retired from public life and settled down to write an informal compilation of his thoughts on the essence of life, human nature, and heaven and earth. Though ...
Proven tools for data-driven school improvement! From strategic planning and accountability to restructuring goals, school leaders face myriad organizational tasks, each one vying for immediate action. Where to begin and where best to allocate resources become critical questions as the issue of organization becomes more prevalent. In the third ...
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