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Zen Buddhism by Christmas Humphreys
£35.00
Hardback 3rd Edition.
What is Zen? If you asked a true Zen master he might tweak your nose, scowl fiercely, or roar with laughter, whichever he thought would stir your spirit awake—for that is the object of Zen. Humphreys, however, who has practiced both Zen & the law with equal success for more than thirty years, is kinder. He does give the reader an idea—a very good idea—of what it is all about. He describes, with some of the endlessly amusing stories that center on this vigorous school of Buddhism, its origin & influence in China & Japan, some of its techniques, & its English affinities. Anyone who recognizes the super-sense behind the non-sense of Edward Lear or Lewis Carroll is already halfway to Zen.
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Practical Zen Yoga by Julian Daizan Skinner
£24.99
Based in the Buddha’s mindful perception of the universality of change, the embodied spiritual path of Zen yoga aligns us with the seasons – not only the cycles of the year but the seasons or phases of human life, and also the seasons of change within the individual spiritual journey in “Spring is perfectly spring; it is also transforming into summer.” Daizan invites you to join him on the Zen journey of the ‘middle way’, finding balance on the physical, energetic and emotional levels and approaching the dawning and stabilisation of awakened awareness. Interviews with a range of Zen yoga practitioners underline that this is a practice you make your own. Attitudes of curiosity, kindness and adaptability underpin the work making this a book that’s transformative for any age and body type.
Zen and the Art of Dealing with Difficult People by Mark Westmoquette
£12.99
This is a guide to applying the teachings of mindfulness and Zen to the troublesome or challenging people in our lives. Perhaps you can see there’s often a pattern to your behaviour in relation to them and that it often causes pain – perhaps a great deal of pain. The only way we can grow is by facing this pain, acknowledging how we feel and how we’ve reacted, and making an intention or commitment to end this repeating pattern of suffering.
In this book, Mark Westmoquette speaks from a place of profound personal experience. A Zen monk, he has endured two life-changing traumas caused by other people: his sexual abuse by his own father; and his stepfather’s death and mother’s very serious injury in a car crash due to the careless driving of an off-duty policeman. He stresses that by bringing awareness and kindness to these relationships, our initial stance of “I can’t stand this person, they need to change” will naturally shift into something much broader and more inclusive. The book makes playful use of Zen koans – apparently nonsensical phrases or stories – to help jar us out of habitual ways of perceiving the world and nudge us toward a new perspective of wisdom and compassion.
Entangling Vines - Zen Koans of Shumon Kattoshu
£50.00
Translated by Thomas Yuhho Kirchner, with forward by Ueda Shizutero
is an English translation of a key Japanese Zen koan collection, Shumon Kattoshu, used in contemporary Rinzai Zen training. Unlike other classic koan texts, it presents the koans without added introductions or commentaries, giving them more direct impact. The book provides numerous koan cases for Zen masters to use in training and helps practitioners focus on the central questions of Zen through "great doubt"
Published: Tenryu-Ji Institute for Philosophy and Religion, Hanazono University, Kyoto 2004
Condition: Fine. Dust jacket unclipped in protective cellophane wrapper. Binding firm, pages clean and
unmarked.
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