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Instructions to the Cook

By Roshi Bernie Glassman and Rick Fields — 1996

A Zen Master’s Lessons for Living a Life that Matters

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A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism

Written by the first and only layperson to receive full dharma transmission in the Suzuki Roshi Soto Zen lineage, A Bigger Sky explores what it means to traverse the gaps of a Buddhism created by and for men, navigate the seemingly contradictory domains of secular and spiritual life, and walk a...

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Pray to Our Ancestors | Japanese Buddhist Altar

Today, we go to my parents' house. There is a Buddhist altar to pray to our ancestors. Let me show you how to pray.

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Great Doubt, Skeptical Doubt - Hogen Bays, Roshi

Roshi Hogen Bays examines the difference between the concepts of skeptical doubt and the Great Doubt in Zen Buddhism.

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Ep. 18 Peace in Schools With Caverly Morgan

Ethan Nichtern shares a conversation with Caverly Morgan about bringing mindfulness and meditation practices into the education system.

The Road Home with Ethan Nichtern

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Ep. 20 Wholehearted With Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison

Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison visits The Road Home Podcast for a conversation about taking a wholehearted approach to our dharma practice.

The Road Home with Ethan Nichtern

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Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings of D. T. Suzuki

No other figure in history has played a bigger part in opening the West to Buddhism than the eminent Zen author, D.T. Suzuki, and in this reissue of his best work readers are given the very heart of Zen teaching.

Daisetz T. Suzuki

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Zen in the Art of Archery

A classic work on Eastern philosophy, Zen in the Art of Archery is a charming and deeply illuminating story of one man’s experience with Zen. Eugen Herrigel, a German professor of Philosophy in Tokyo, took up the study of archery as a step toward an understanding of Zen Buddhism.

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Being Zen: Bringing Meditation to Life

We can use whatever life presents to strengthen our spiritual practice—including the turmoil of daily life. What we need is the willingness to just be with our experiences—whether they are painful or pleasing—and open ourselves to the reality of our lives without trying to fix or change anything.

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Zen and Us

“Zen enables us to do two things: first, to become one with our ‘true nature,’ in which the Absolute is present within us; and, second, to fulfill our human destiny by transforming ourselves and becoming a transparent medium, so that the Absolute within us can shine through.

Karlfried Graf Dürckheim

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Hara: The Vital Center of Man

When we speak of an individual’s state, we are actually referring to something that transcends the duality of body and soul, something that reflects the entirety of a person’s being.

Karlfried Graf Dürckheim

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