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Zen Buddhism for anybody Vol. 1: This body itself is Nirvana
If you are tired of unreadable and meaningless Zen translations, start here. If you are tired of long and repetitive commentaries missing the point; tired of breaking through a thousand footnotes in countless books before you can understand a poem, this series might interest you. Here, texts and stories from the ancient teachers were selected, rendered and ordered so they can comment and clarify each other with minimum intervention. Thus, even if you find yourself right in the middle of a perplexing mystery, you will probably discover revealing clues in the next chapters. The texts and volumes were arranged through underlying relations meant to privilege and encourage a certain kind of wisdo...
Yoka Daishi's Realizing the Way
A translation of, and commentary upon, Song on the Realization of the Way, a key Zen text exploring Mahayana thought.
Night & Day
Laska has written works alternately described as bold and memorable and with a hair-raising comic vitality. Given the complexity of his occasionally dark, unabashedly political, philosophical and underground writings, he [can be described] as an Appalachian Fyodor Dostoyevsky. --Jeff Biggers, Contributing Editor to The Bloomsbury Review Eschewing conventional poetic fashion, Laskas engaging collection of over three decades of writings in the shadow of corporate domination is a sweeping poetic and prosaic, lyrical and anti-lyrical assemblage of thought-provoking epigrams, puns, and philosophical dialogues, together with voices and vignettes of a by-passed America. From the stripped-mined hill...
The Wisdom of Buddhism
A balanced selection from Buddhist writings, including scriptures used by the Zen School, with chapters on the Buddha, Tibetan Buddhism, Concentration and Meditation, the Buddhist Order, and Nirvana. With sources, glossary and index.
The Song of the Wind in the Dry Trees
This book of commentaries given by Zen Master Philippe Coupey covers two 13th-century Japanese texts. In Part I, he’s chosen twelve poems from the Sansho Doei, a collection of poetry composed by Master Dogen Zenji between 1245 and 1253. In Part II, Coupey comments on the complete text of Komyozo Zanmai, written in 1278 by Dogen’s disciple and successor, Master Koun Ejo. The author’s fresh interpretation of these two classic texts rests on an intimate and fundamental experience with this material, beyond space and time. Coupey’s words are addressed to the reader’s heart, shedding light on our own quest and ratifying the discoveries that we may have made along the way. Clearly, then,...
The Selected Letters of Master Daie Soko
Master Daie Soko was one of the most distinguished masters of the Sung dynasty. His teaching methods shaped the development of Rinzai Zen practice. This book is a selection of his letters to his disciples and the commentaries by Venerable Myokyo-ni bring these letters alive for modern day readers and practitioners of Zen.
Walking in Zen, Sitting in Zen
The Chinese master Yoka Daishi was said to have been in a state of perfect repose while walking, standing, sitting and lying down. According to legend, he attained complete realization in one night, and was called: “master of the enlightenment attained in one night.” Osho describes Yoka as a Zen master of great skill; his words being tremendously beautiful, yet uncompromising. His deep respect and compassion for the individual is such that he wants you to wake up now; he shatters all your dreams. Osho walks hand in hand with Yoka’s insistence that the man of Zen is extraordinary in his ordinariness: he walks in Zen, he sits in Zen. In combining Yoka’s sutras with personal questions f...
Zen and Western Thought
This collection of Abe's essays is a welcome addition to philosophy and comparative philosophy.
Going beyond the Pairs
In Going beyond the Pairs, Dennis McCort examines the theme of the coincidentia oppositorum—the tendency of a thing or relationship to turn, under certain conditions, into its own opposite—as it is expressed in German Romanticism, Zen Buddhism, and deconstruction. McCort argues that the coincidentia can be useful for understanding and comparing a variety of cultural forms, including systems of myth, religions ancient and modern, laws of social organization, speculative philosophies East and West, psychological theories and therapeutic practices, and dynamic organizing principles of music, art, and literature. The book touches on a variety of Western and Eastern writers and thinkers, including Thomas Merton, Jacques Derrida, Nishida Kitaro, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franklin Merrell-Wolff, Franz Kafka, Novalis, Renzai Zen, J. D. Salinger, and the mysterious, doughnut-loving editor of the medieval Chinese koan collection, Mumonkan.
A Literary History of the American West
Literary histories, of course, do not have a reason for being unless there exists the literature itself. This volume, perhaps more than others of its kind, is an expression of appreciation for the talented and dedicated literary artists who ignored the odds, avoided temptations to write for popularity or prestige, and chose to write honestly about the American West, believing that experiences long knowns to be of historical importance are also experiences that need and deserve a literature of importance.
