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How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment

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Dōgen - 1983

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.

Meditation on Emptiness

Jeffrey Hopkins - 1983

In this, his major work, Jeffrey Hopkins, one of the world's foremost scholar-practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism, offers a clear exposition of the Prasasgika-Madhyamaka view of emptiness as presented in the Ge-luk-ba tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

In bringing this remarkable and complex philosophy to life, he describes the meditational practices by which emptiness can be realized and shows throughout that, far from being merely abstract, these teachings can be vivid and utterly practical. Presented in six parts, this book Is indispensable for those wishing to delve deeply into Buddhist thought.This 1996 Revised Edition includes a critical edition of Jamyang Shêpa Ngawang Tsöndrü's root text Great Exposition of the Tenets (1689) in Tibetan text.

Awakening the Heart

John Welwood - 1983

Can a meditative practice assist and promote the healing relationship between psychotherapist and patient? The notable contributors to this practical book draw on a wide range of Eastern and Western disciplines—psychoanalysis, Gestalt, Aikido, and various Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist contemplative traditions—to show that it can.

What they propose is a meeting between the Western psychotherapeutic approach—grounded in working with the personal problems and the need to carve out a strong awareness of self—and Eastern tradition, which emphasizes a larger kind of awareness and equanimity as a continuously available source of clarity and health for those who know how to find it. They show that joining psychotherapy with meditation can mutually awaken the hearts of both therapist and client, sparking them both to open more fully. Jacob Needleman, Erich Fromm, Robin Skynner, Ram Dass, Karl Sperber, Roger Walsh, Chögyam Trungpa, and Thomas Hora are among the contributors.

Cittaviveka: Teachings from the Silent Mind

Ajahn Sumedho - 1983

A selection of Dhamma talks by Ven.

Ajahn Sumedho of Chithurst Forest Monastery, West Sussex, England; with narratives of the monastic life.

The Ring of the Way: Testament of a Zen Master

Taisen Deshimaru - 1983

The last and perhaps most radical teachings of the late Zen master Taisen Deshimaru..

The last and perhaps most radical teachings of the late Zen master Taisen Deshimaru.

Entry Into the Inconceivable: An Introduction to Hua-Yen Buddhism

Thomas Cleary - 1983

Entry Into the Inconceivable is an introduction to the philosophy of the Hua-yen school of Buddhism, one of the cornerstones of East Asian Buddhist thought.

Cleary presents a survey of the unique Buddhist scripture on which the Hua-yen teaching is based and a brief history of its introduction into China. He also presents a succinct analysis of the essential metaphysics of Hua-yen Buddhism as it developed during China's golden age and full translations of four basic texts by seminal thinkers of the school.

The Marvelous Companion: Life Stories of the Buddha (Tibetan Translation Series)

Arya Sura - 1983

A translation of thirty-four stories of the previous lives of the Buddha, told by the Enlightened One himself, and assembled and retold by the first-century master poet Aryashura.

Related with wit, charm, and beauty, these stories illuminate the power of compassionate action and the nature of the Bodhisattva path. 34 line drawings.