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The Last Samurai

2003

An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle.

154 min

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A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation: Practical Advice and Inspiration from Contemporary Buddhist Teachers

As countless meditators have learned firsthand, meditation practice can positively transform the way we see and experience our lives.

Rod Meade Sperry (editor), Shambhala Sun (editor)

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Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki

Shunryu Suzuki’s extraordinary gift for conveying traditional Zen teachings using ordinary language is well known to the countless readers of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. In Zen Is Right Here, his teachings are brought to life powerfully and directly through stories told about him by his students.

Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick (editor)

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Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen

Practicing the true spirit of Zen. Not Always So is based on Shunryu Suzuki's lectures and is framed in his own inimitable, allusive, paradoxical style, rich with unexpected and off–centre insights.

Shunryu Suzuki, Edward Espe Brown

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Every Day Is a Good Day

Today does not become yesterday, and Dōgen-zenji states that today does not become tomorrow. Each day is its own past and future and has its own absolute value.

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From a Lecture by Suzuki Roshi

Buddha’s teaching put the emphasis on selflessness. Buddhism is not a special cultural heritage.

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Warm-Hearted Practice

When your practice improves, and you have good control over your desires and your everyday life, then you will have big freedom from everything. That is the goal of our practice, both for priests and for lay people.

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Suzuki Lecture: May 5, 1970

We practice zazen because that is the only way to go beyond thinking mind—emotional activity.

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The Waterfall

When you can sit with your whole body and mind, and with the oneness of your mind and body under the control of the universal mind, you can easily attain this kind of right understanding. Your everyday life will be renewed without being attached to an old erroneous interpretation of life.

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Five Lessons on Life from Zen Buddhist Master Shunryu Suzuki

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few.” — Shunryu Suzuki

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Things as It Is

Our effort in Zen is to observe everything as-it-is. Yet even though we say so, we are not necessarily observing everything as-it-is.

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