Zen Enlightenment

The Gateless Gate of Zen is a traditional collection of stories and essays, called koans, that were used by the ancient priests to teach Zen to their students. It contains the complete comments and verses of the original Chinese Zen masters from the 1228 edition, now in modern language. The Gateless Gate deepens Zen understanding and helps bring the experience of Zen inspiration and clarity into your daily life. Its recurring theme is the attainment of satori, a mental awakening and state of clarity equivalent to epiphany, Tao, prajna, and spiritual enlightenment. The Gateless Gate of Zen ...

From a Christian middle class home, to years of Zen practice, and meeting spiritual teachers such as Gangaji, Bob Harwood's deep and determined exploration of the existential questions of life makes for heartfelt reading. The brilliant mind behind this book is an individual whose insatiable curiosity propelled them on an unwavering quest to unravel the enigmatic threads of existence. They grappled with a vast array of profound questions, such as the very existence of a divine presence, the origins of life in a seemingly barren cosmos, the perplexing paradoxes that haunt various scientific ...

Discover your path to profound inner transformation with Pathways to Inner Peace and Enlightenment. This comprehensive yet accessible guide will walk you step-by-step through the life-changing practice of meditation. Whether you're a total beginner or an experienced practitioner, this book gives everything you need to establish a regular meditation routine and integrate mindful presence into daily life. Written with humor, wisdom, and encouragement, Pathways makes meditation relatable and fun. You'll learn a range of techniques from focusing on the breath to mantra meditation, ...

Discover the calm within you. Inner Peace: Buddhism for Beginners is a gentle, practical guide to Buddhist philosophy for anyone seeking a more mindful, meaningful life. It may be your first Buddhism book, or you may be a beginner ready to begin your spiritual journey. This book offers clear insights, thoughtful reflections, and beginner-friendly guidance. Michael Zayne draws from years of experience writing about Buddhism to simplify essential teachings into accessible, heart-centered chapters. You don’t need to chant mantras, speak Sanskrit, or sit in long meditations. Instead, you’ll...

Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits - torn between their commitment to religion and their desire for more. But their friendship is threatened by the arrival of romantic love. Thomas falls for James Bower, who runs the local museum. Together they develop an obsession with the vanished nineteenth-century astronomer said to haunt a nearby manor, and whose identity might finally be revealed when a startling discovery is made.

Enlightenment Collection contains the following works: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Patanjali, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, and The Analects of Confucius by Confucius.

The Gateless Gate of Zen Mini Edition is a traditional collection of stories and essays, called koans, that were used by the ancient priests to teach Zen to their students. It contains the complete comments and verses of the original Chinese Zen masters from the 1228 edition, now in modern language. The Gateless Gate deepens Zen understanding and helps bring the experience of Zen inspiration and clarity into your daily life. Its recurring theme is the attainment of satori, a mental awakening and state of clarity equivalent to epiphany, Tao, prajna, and spiritual enlightenment. If you are ...

From the author of Katie McGuire, Vampire: Kenny has two problems. First, he’s a Reset, which means that whenever someone murders him, he wakes up on the morning of his dying day to start all over again. Which might sound like a pretty awesome superpower, but it’s actually super sucky because he’ll eventually die of cancer or old age, after which point he'll just keep reliving his agonizing dying day forever. His second problem is people keep murdering him. So he teams up with another Reset and they storm the lab where it all began in an effort to undo this unordinary death disorder. ...

If you're looking for the next level for your mindfulness or meditation practice, this book will take you there. Bob Fergeson distills the best of his advice on the practical matters of the spiritual search in this little book of self-knowledge. Unafraid to speak of his own difficulties and realizations, Bob offers an everyman's guide to self-realization: not through believing the words of another, but through seeking within; cultivating what he calls the Listening Attention.

Pissed and on the verge of ripping someone to shreds, I didn’t think before I ran off into the forest during a full moon. Not the smartest move.... I know. So of course, I was attacked by a thirsty vampire only to be saved by another.

What is Buddhism? What is Zen? How can this ancient wisdom improve your life? If you're curious about this popular spiritual path, Buddhism: Learn the Enlightenment That Brings Peace - Happiness, Mindfulness, Meditation, & Zen is the book for you! Do you want to feel better? Are you in search of happiness? Would you like to find a way to manage your emotions and feel great every day? If so, Buddhism: Learn the Enlightenment That Brings Peace - Happiness, Mindfulness, Meditation, & Zen is the book for you! It explains how Buddhism and Mindfulness can help people with mental illness - and many other modern health issues. With this ancient practice, you can lower your blood pressure, stabilize your moods, and even improve your digestion!

Mind-bending nondualism fiction that speaks the unspeakable. The original sin is Freudian in this modern version of ancient creation legends. Shatarupa’s mythical hundred manifestations reflect her unrivaled beauty but also the pain of family secrets and unfulfilled dreams. Driven from paradise by an unspeakable act, she must face her demons—who happen to be philosophers. They vie for her feelings with pleasure, art, and sacrifice, inevitably leading to an existential showdown. When Shatarupa finally exposes the origin of humankind and the physical world, it turns the philosophers’ ...

Since ancient times, the writings on the art of relations between men and women have been circulated all over the world. Cervantes wrote, and so did Boccaccio, out of the sheer delight of creation. We find there many prescriptions that are correct and useful for the human body and spirit manifested in the realm of sexual life. The rules and methods of the so-called 'Oriental Erotica' are a part of the world's cultural heritage, and so I thought to make my own modest contribution to this critical side of human life. In Daoism and Zen Buddhism, for example, as in some other eastern religions,...

The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of modern values such as human rights, religious toleration, freedom of thought, scientific thought as an exemplary form of reasoning and rationality and evidence-based argument. Others accuse the Enlightenment of putting forward a scientific rationality which ignores the complexity and variety of human beings, propagates shallow atheism and aims to subjugate nature to so-called technical progress.

The Enlightenment has been nothing if not divisive, being blamed for bloody disasters - Auschwitz, the gulags, Islamic terrorism - as well as being heralded as the harbinger of reason and equality. To this day historians disagree over when it was, where it was, and what it was. Kieron O’Hara deftly traverses these conflicts, presenting the history, ideology, culture, and social life of the Enlightenment, not as a simple set of easily enumerated ideas, but rather as an evolving conglomerate that spawned a diverse set of thinkers.

In Practical Enlightenment, Ariel and Shya Kane share a refreshing approach to living life without worry, stress or anxiety - a way of living where your past no longer dictates your present or future and you experience your own perfection. Through humorous and touching stories of real people in real life situations, the Kanes show you the easy way to live an enlightened life - no effort required!

The Thought Provoking writings presented in this book were originally published in the Scott Shaw Zen Blog 8.0. These writings discuss the realities of life, god, Zen, enlightenment, art, cinema, and existence in the way only Scott Shaw can present.

The Zen Musings of Scott Shaw on Life, Existence, Spirituality, Art, Film, and Consciousness. This book takes the reader deeply into the mind of ever-expanding human consciousness as it charts it way through the philosophies, observations, and experiences of one of the leading proponents of modern Zen, Scott Shaw. The Asian Journal of Zen writes, “The words presented in this book lead the reader to investigate their own thoughts, morals, and ideologies. Not only does it provide them with expansive food for thought, but also it guides them to come to a clearer conclusion about their own ...

This book is aimed at people wanting to learning about Buddhism. In this book, I'll discuss the basic principles and tenets of Buddhism, Buddhist teachings and Buddhist rituals, along with how you can incorporate Buddhism into your daily life.

Mike Kewley shares his experience of looking for ‘awakening’ and how he found that awakening or enlightenment is here, in the everyday things of life. Mike fell in love with the ordinary. Ordinary life, he reveals, is the real miracle, not fireworks and crazy ecstasies, nor the oceans of calm (but lifeless) detachment… In The Treasure House, contemporary spiritual dilemmas are also addressed. Using moments and themes from his own life-experience, he shows how someone with a non-dual awakening can benefit from the practices of mindfulness, while practitioners of mindfulness can benefit...