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  • Start Making Sense

    How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaningful Lives in Absurd Times

    by Steven J. Heine ...
    A "beautiful, deep, thoughtful" (Angela Duckworth, New York Times-bestselling author of Grit) investigation into the science of why we crave meaning—and how we can pursue it in this age of anxietyThese days everyone feels on edge, panicked by climate change, political polarization, and artificial intelligence.In Start Making Sense, psychologist Steven J. Heine shows how to overcome our angst and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Flowers Blooming on a Withered Tree

    Giun's Verse Comments on Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye

    by Steven Heine ...
    This book provides a translation and critical bilingual edition on the Verse Comments on the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye. The Verse Comments by Giun (1253-1333), the fifth abbot of Eiheiji temple, is an important early medieval Japanese commentary on the 60-chapter edition of the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shobogenzo), one of the main versions of the masterwork written by Eihei Dogen ... Read more

    $104.39 USD

  • White Collar Zen

    Using Zen Principles to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Your Career Goals

    by Steven Heine ...
    It is said that in traditional Japan the samurai embraced Zen because it helped them to be fearless in adversity, to act quickly and decisively, and to keep focused on their ultimate goal. In White Collar Zen, Steven Heine shows how, by applying Zen principles in our working lives, we can achieve the same results for ourselves. Heine describes the way Zen embraces two different yet harmonious ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Zen Masters

    by Steven Heine, Dale Wright ...
    Extending their successful series of collections on Zen Buddhism, Heine and Wright present a fifth volume, on what may be the most important topic of all - Zen Masters. Following two volumes on Zen literature (Zen Classics and The Zen Canon) and two volumes on Zen practice (The Koan and Zen Ritual) they now propose a volume on the most significant product of the Zen tradition - the Zen masters who ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Audiobook

    DNA Is Not Destiny

    The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship between You and Your Genes

    by Steven J. Heine ...
    Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 14 min

    Around 250,000 people have had their genomes sequenced, and scientists expect that number to rise to one billion by 2025. Professor Steven J. Heine argues that the first thing we will do on receiving our DNA test results is to misinterpret them completely. Despite breathless (often lightly researched) media coverage about newly discovered "cancer" or "divorce" or "IQ" genes, the prospect of a DNA ... Read more

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    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Tongxuan's 100 Chan Questions

    To Speak Without Speaking

    by Steven Heine, Xiaohuan Cao ...
    Tongxuan's 100 Chan Questions is a significant Zen Buddhist koan collection. It includes dialogues about philosophy and religious practice expressed through paradoxical sayings and puzzling poems. This thirteenth-century text, included in the supplementary Buddhist canon, was composed by several leading figures of the Caodong Chan Buddhist school in China, who were part of an important sublineage ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Dogen

    Japan’s Original Zen Teacher

    by Steven Heine ...
    Series Book 8 - Lives of the Masters
    An essential introduction to the life, writings, and legacy of one of Japan's most prolific Buddhist masters.The founder of the Soto school of Zen in Japan, Eihei Dogen (1200–1253) is one of the most influential Buddhist teachers of all time. Although Dogen’s writings have reached wide prominence among contemporary Buddhists and philosophers, there is much that remains enigmatic about his life and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Wisdom within Words

    An Annotated Translation of Dōgen's Chinese-Style Poetry

    by Steven Heine ...
    Wisdom within Words is the first complete bilingual edition and annotated translation of the poetry collection entitled Kuchugen, which features 150 Chinese-style verses (kanshi) written by Dōgen Zenji (1200-1253), founder of the Soto Zen sect in early medieval Japan, and compiled in the eighteenth century by Menzan Zuiho. These poems are essential in highlighting several key aspects of Dōgen's ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • DNA Is Not Destiny

    The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship between You and Your Genes

    by Steven J. Heine ...
    “[An] important book.… Heine’s vibrant writing makes it come alive with personal significance for every reader.”—Carol Dweck, author of MindsetScientists expect one billion people to have their genomes sequenced by 2025. Yet cultural psychologist Steven J. Heine argues that, in trying to know who we are and where we come from, we’re likely to completely misinterpret what’s “in our DNA.” Heine’s ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Opening a Mountain

    Koans of the Zen Masters

    by Steven Heine ...
    With the growing popularity of Zen Buddhism in the West, virtually everyone knows, or thinks they know, what a koan is: a brief and baffling question or statement that cannot be solved by the logical mind and which, after sustained concentration, can lead to sudden enlightenment. But the truth about koans is both simpler--and more complicated--than this. In Opening a Mountain, Steven Heine shows ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen

    A Remarkable Century of Transmission and Transformation

    by Steven Heine ...
    From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen investigates the remarkable century that lasted from 1225 to 1325, during which the transformation of the Chinese Chan school of Buddhism into the Japanese Zen sect was successfully completed. Steven Heine reveals how this school of Buddhism, which started half a millennium earlier as a mystical utopian cult for reclusive monks, gained a broad following among ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Sacred High City, Sacred Low City

    A Tale of Religious Sites in Two Tokyo Neighborhoods

    by Steven Heine ...
    In Sacred High City, Sacred Low City, Steven Heine argues that lived religion in Japan functions as an integral part of daily life; any apparent lack of interest masks a fundamental commitment to participating regularly in diverse, though diffused, religious practices. The book uses case studies of religious sites at two representative but contrasting Tokyo neighborhoods as a basis for reflecting ... Read more

    $33.29 USD