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Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai

Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness is the first follow-up volume to Suzuki Roshi's important work. Like Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, it is a collection of lectures that reveal the insight, humor, and intimacy with Zen that made Suzuki Roshi so influential as a teacher.

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Shunryu Suzuki
2001
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Zen 101: A Brief Introduction to Zen Buddhism

You've heard of Zen. You may even have had moments of Zen—instances of insight and a feeling of connectedness and understanding that seem to come out of nowhere. But what exactly is Zen?

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Barbara O'Brien
2019
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Lama Surya Das - Natural Meditation

A short practice from Lama Surya Das’s video program: Natural Meditation.

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Lama Surya Das
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2009
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The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment

In this classic work of spiritual guidance, the founder of the Rochester Zen Center presents a comprehensive overview of Zen Buddhism.

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Philip Kapleau Roshi
1989
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Meditation Is Ridiculously, Amazingly Simple

If you approach your practice as a path of love, the rhythms of life will teach you moment by moment how to proceed. Each little discovery about what breathing feels like will give you more access to your inner life and the secret power of recovery built into your body.

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Lorin Roche
2022
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Soto Zen As a new style of living - Soto Zen Buddhism In North America

This is the introduction of the current stream of Soto Zen or Zen in North America. This movie is shot by Tsuneo Azuma and the edited by Yoko Okumura.

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2017
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Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki

Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in Crooked Cucumber, the first full biography of any Zen master to be published in the West.

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David Chadwick
2000
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Wherever You Are, Enlightenment Is There

In our practice the most important thing is to realize that we have buddhanature. Intellectually we may know this, but it is rather difficult to accept.

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Shunryu Suzuki
2017
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Zen: An Introduction

Zen is a form of Buddhism that developed in 7th and 8th century China, when Buddhism spread from India to China and interacted with the indigenous tradition of Taoism.

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2018
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The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and this Zigzag Life

Here, Natalie Goldberg, “a writer both energized and enlightened” (Julia Cameron), shares those vivid moments that have wakened her to new ways of being.

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Natalie Goldberg
2016
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