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  • Bring Me the Rhinoceros

    And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life

    by John Tarrant ...
    A provocative and playful exploration of the Zen koan tradition that reveals how everyday paradoxes are an integral part of our spiritual journeyBring Me the Rhinoceros is an unusual guide to happiness and a can opener for your thinking. For fifteen hundred years, Zen koans have been passed down through generations of masters, usually in private encounters between teacher and student. This book ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Book of Mu

    Essential Writings on Zen's Most Important Koan

    The word "mu" is one ancient Zen teacher's response to the earnest question of whether even a dog has "buddha nature". Discovering for ourselves the meaning of the master's response is the urgent work of each of us who yearns to be free and at peace. "Practicing Mu" is synonymous with practicing Zen, "sitting with Mu" is an apt description for all Zen meditation, and it is said that all the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Story of the Buddha

    by John Tarrant ...
    For readers of mythology, an original and introspective journey through the life of the Buddha accompanied by 26 beautiful color illustrations and 8 meditations.From longtime Zen teacher and poet John Tarrant, this is an original retelling of the foundational myth of Buddhism—the life of the Buddha. Told and retold for centuries, this story holds a special place in the human legacy because it is, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Realizing Genjokoan

    The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo

    Dogen, the thirteenth-century Zen master who founded the Japanese Soto school of Zen, is renowned as one the world's most remarkable religious geniuses. His works are both richly poetic and deeply insightful and philosophical, pointing to the endless depths of Zen exploration. And almost precisely because of these facts, Dogen is often difficult for readers to understand and fully appreciate ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Art of Just Sitting

    Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza

    Edited by John Daido Loori ...
    Shikantaza--or "just sitting"--is one of the simplest, most subtle forms of meditation, and one of the most easily misunderstood. This peerless volume brings together a wealth of writings, from the Buddha himself to Bodhidharma and Dogen and many of modern Zen Buddhism's most influential masters, all pointing directly to the heart of this powerful practice. Edited by one of America's pre-eminent ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Zen: Talks, Stories and Commentaries

    by Albert Low ...
    Albert Low, teacher and director at the Montreal Zen Center and dharma heir of Roshi Philip Kapleau, provides an engaging collection of talks, stories and commentaries on Zen. Though the entries range from dharma talks on koans to discussions on Buddhism and Christianity, they all address concrete concerns of our lives and reveal the author's profound insights. ... Read more

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  • Zen and the Sutras

    by Albert Low ...
    The basic message of all the Mahayana Buddhist sutras is awakening - what the Zen teacher Bassui called "seeing the wordless sutra." Zen and the Sutras is an accessible study of the major Mahayana sutras as manuals for the practice of Zen. Low's insights and conclusions about spirituality and humanity will both illuminate and inspire, in the way of Zen, in the search for spiritual awakening. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How To Practice Dharma: Teachings on the Eight Worldly Dharmas

    FPMT Lineage, #2

    Series Book 2 - FPMT Lineage
    Buddhism is a house full of treasures — practices for gaining the happiness of future lives, the bliss of liberation and the supreme happiness of enlightenment — but knowing the difference between Dharma and non-Dharma practices is the key that opens the door to all those treasures. No matter how much we know about emptiness, the chakras or controlling our vital energy through kundalini yoga, it's ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Happens When I Die?

    On the Spiritual Path, #4

    by David Tuffley ...
    Series Book 4 - On the Spiritual Path
    It is natural for people to shy away from the reality of death. After all, the fear of dying is the root fear of all fears. Yet this refusal to acknowledge the impermanence of our earthly existence creates a deep anxiety that inhibits a person's spiritual progress. Put another way, if we are to progress on the spiritual path, it is necessary to fully accept the impermanence of life and the ... Read more

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  • Bodhisattva Attitude: How to Dedicate Your Life to Others

    Heart Advice, #1

    Series Book 1 - Heart Advice
    This book comprises several motivations taught by Lama Zopa Rinpoche called Bodhicitta Motivations For Life, intended for us to use first thing every morning to generate the mind of bodhicitta and dedicate our life to numberless sentient beings. The Bodhisattva Attitude is taken from the sutra teachings of the Buddha and is based on verses by the great bodhisattva Shantideva in his Guide to the ... Read more

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  • Dhammapada (Mobi Classics)

    Dhammapada, a collection of verses; being one of the canonical books of the Buddhists Translated from Pali by F. Max MullerThe Dhammapada is a versified Buddhist scripture traditionally ascribed to the Buddha himself. It is one of the best-known texts from the Theravada canon. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

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  • Life, Death and After Death

    by Lama Yeshe ...
    This book contains the last teachings Lama Yeshe gave in the West. Poignantly, the topic was death and rebirth; six months later, Lama Yeshe passed away. It also includes an introductory discourse by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and concludes with a teaching on transference of consciousness given by Lama Yeshe in London in 1982."Tibetan Buddhism teaches us to understand the death process and trains us to ... Read more

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