As with A BUDDHIST BIBLE, this introduction to the Buddhist practice of "Zazen" or sitting meditation has served many Western readers as a gateway to the wisdom of the East. One of the first Westerners to practice Zen in a traditional monastic setting, Roshi Phillip Kapleau, an American Zen master who studied in Japan for 15 years, before ...
Koans are at the very heart of Zen practice. This title discusses the essential Zen koans and how to work with them in practice. The text begins by discussing the Buddha and presents the koan as a concept. The reader then encounters koans with commentaries and five "teshios", or talks.
If, as many have taught, Zen Buddhism aspires to the experience of unity with all things, the use of pain and discipline in advancing one's progress to satori or enlightenment is a core Zen practice. Kapleau walks the reader along the path that he himself has traversed as a Zen roshi--or teacher--over three decades, seeking satori in an American ...
Zen teacher Philip Kapleau presents an exploration of the spiritual dimensions of death and dying that reveals how we may learn to live life fully at every moment, and die serenely.
When Roshi Philip Kapleau returned to the United States in 1966, after thirteen years of training in Japan with two of the country's greatest masters of Zen, he "did not come home empty-handed -- he brought us a living word of Zen," Kenneth Kraft has said. The first Westerner fully and naturally at home with Zen, Roshi Kapleau has made it his life ...
This Ann Izard Storyteller's Choice Award winner -- completely updated and rewritten with expanded commentaries and two new sections -- brings together a fascinating array of stories from the Buddhist tradition.
Transmitting the religious and spiritual essence of zen, this guide presents the doctrines and traditions of zen the way they have been taught by the masters. By addressing its rites and practices, the author explains the idea of training both body and mind in a way that both experts and beginners can understand. "Transmitiendo el caracter ...
With essays, lectures, and accounts of personal experiences of enlightenment, this is a guide for all spiritual seekers and an excellent introduction to Zen Buddhism.
Drawing on the teachings of Eastern and Western religions with insights gleaned from his own Zen experience, world-renowned Zen Buddhist teacher Kapleau clearly and concisely explains the often avoided subject of death and dying as it relates to each of us. Black-and-white linecut illustrations.
This comprehensive volume of writings and lectures spans thirty-two years of this popular teacher's career, from 1964 to 1996. Topics include Zen training and practice; Buddhist ethics; illness, death, and dying; and Zen in America. Roshi Philip Kapleau underwent thirteen years of formal training in Japan with two of Japan's most noted Zen masters ...
Originally published in 1972, this anthology examines death through the eyes of great Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu and Western masters. Instructions and specific rites are set forth to enable people to guide the mind of the dying through death and the Intermediate stage which follows. The sections of Rebirth and Karma deal succinctly with these complex ...
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The Tibetan book of the dead, or, the after-death experiences on the Bardo plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English rendering /compiled and edited by W. Y. Evans-Wentz ; psychological commentary by C. G. Jung ; introductory foreword by Lama...
