Essays Zen

The Hidden Lamp is a collection of 100 koans and stories of Buddhist women from the time of the Buddha to the present day. This revolutionary book brings together many teaching stories that were hidden for centuries, unknown until this volume. These stories are extraordinary expressions of freedom and fearlessness, relevant for men and women of any time or place. In this audio, we meet nuns, laywomen practicing with their families, famous teachers honored by emperors, and old women selling tea on the side of the road.

Discover the inimitable genius of Ray Bradbury as he explores the art of writing, the power of creativity, and the timeless appeal of storytelling in this collection of essays that are part masterclass, part memoir, featuring a new introduction by Dan Chaon. In Zen in the Art of Writing, Ray...

Exploring the relationship between Christianity and Zen, especially through his dialogue with the great Zen teacher D.T. Suzuki, the book makes an excellent introduction to a comparative study of these two traditions, as well as giving the listener a strong taste of the mature Merton. Never does one feel him losing his own faith; rather, one feels that faith getting deeply clarified and affirmed. Just as the body of "Zen" cannot be found by the scavengers, so too, Merton suggests, with the eternal truth of Christ.

This inspiring audiobook contains six revolutionary essays exploring the relationship between spiritual experience and ordinary life—and the need for them to coexist within each of us. With essays on “cosmic consciousness” (including Alan Watts’ account of his own ventures into this...

Discover how Zen Buddhist philosophy transforms the anxiety of modern life into a grounded path of everyday mindfulness. Instead of treating spiritual practice as a distant, mystical escape, this pragmatic guide shows you how to meet daily chaos with calm, open awareness. Whether you are...

In the 17th century, a renowned Japanese monk and Zen master named Takuan Soho penned a collection of profound treatises, unraveling the essence of Buddhist philosophy with eloquence and simplicity. This captivating book unites three of his most significant essays: The Mysterious Record of Immovable Wisdom, The Clear Sound of Jewels, and Chronicles of the Taia Sword. Through his translucent prose, Soho unveils the enigmatic nature of existence, illuminates the path to personal perfection, and unveils the foundational principles that underpin our very being.

1. The Nondual Practice Myth 2. A Cult of One 3. The Power of Language 4. Warpath: Achilles’ Heel 5. Negative Progress 6. The Illusion of Disorder 7. Who cares about truth? 8. Love & Happiness 9. The First Veil 10. Zen and the Art of Self-Mutilation 11. Dropping Baggage 12. The Spiritual Trilemma 13. The Artifice Guy 14. People I Trust to Lie 15. The Open Road 16. The Razor’s Edge 17. A Major Bummer 18. The Rightness of Wrongness 19. Nonduality 101 20. Zombie Apocalypse 21. Game of Lies 22. The Prime Noodlebaker 23. What I Understand 24. The Parable of the Strata 25. The Greatest Wonder...

Zen monk Santoka Taneda (1882 - 1940) is one of Japan's most beloved modern poets, famous for his "free-verse" haiku, the dominant style today. This book tells the fascinating story of his life, liberally sprinkled with more than 300 of his poems and extracts from his essays and journals - compiled by his best friend and biographer Sumita Oyama and elegantly translated by William Scott Wilson.

❓ What if pain was never the problem—but the path? 🌀 What if addiction wasn’t just weakness—but forgetting who you were meant to be? 🌿 What if less isn’t emptiness—but freedom? 🔥 What if the life you crave begins the moment you let go? In a world that medicates discomfort, sells noise, and rewards distraction— The Zen Meditations of an Addict Monk is a quiet rebellion. A book meant not only to inspire you—but to awaken you. A guide. A mirror. 🪞 A fire. 🔥 A return. A spiritual reckoning. A raw, poetic journey through fear, pain, addiction, consumerism, anger, ...

Jedvaita subscriber content is now available in ebooks containing 33 Jed McKenna essays each. 1. The Way That Is in You 2. Radical Nonduality 3. The Scream 4. Nondual Ramblings 5. The Matrix Revelations 6. The Play Is the Thing 7. Spiritual Autolysis 8. Your Happy Place 9. Nothing Exists 10. The Spiritual Fairytale 11. The Joy of Not Dying 12. The Madness of Crowds 13. Negative Buoyancy 14. A Pathless Land 15. The Hook-Up Imperative 16. A Simple Life 17. The Parable of the Matrix 18. Warpath (part one) 19. The Joy of Death 20. The Great Equalizer 21. A Happy Sadness 22. The Human Zoo 23. ...

✨ The journey continues—rawer, and more intimate. 📚 Following the themes explored in the Standard Edition, this Special Edition expands the original reflections with new chapters and a deeper emotional current. For readers who resonated with the original reflections on fear, pain, consumerism, addiction, confidence, purpose, and happiness, this special version offers new meditations on distractions, stress, nonconformism, early rising, the art of letting go and the sacred nature of sex— all presented in the same poetic, minimalist style that touched so many. 🕯 Blending ancient ...

Jedvaita subscriber content is now available in ebooks containing 33 Jed McKenna essays each. 1. Your Creative Output 2. Hellivator 3. Unringing the Bell 4. Game of Veils 5. On Adulthood 6. A Closer of Doors 7. Guilty Until Proven Innocent 8. To Seek and Find 9. The Truth of You 10. On Writing II 11. Dustbunny Overkill 12. The Fable of the Search 13. Hopeless Optimism 14. The Lesser Evil 15. Spiritual Bypassing 16. Practical Wishcraft 17. Zerothink 18. The Hole Problem 19. The Power of Focus 20. Truth vs Reality 21. The Whole Truth 22. The Ignoble Eightfold Path 23. Dark Asylum 24. In ...

Jedvaita subscriber content is now available in ebooks containing 33 Jed McKenna essays each. 1. The Power to Change 2. The Good News Grift 3. Pattern Follows Function 4. The Fates’ Lieutenant 5. The Enemy Within 6. Spiritual Diplomacy 7. The Prism of Self 8. The Road Ahead 9. The Bomb 10. The Way That You Unfold 11. A Very Persistent Illusion 12. On The Dreamstate 13. The Nondual Trinity 14. The Initial Nondual Insight 15. The Power of Not-Ego 16. A Thing Apart 17. On Miracles 18. The Matrix Revisited 19. Reasonable Doubt 20. Mindless Beliefism 21. The Name of the Game 22. The New ...

1. Autotoxemia: A Rant 2. Surrender vs Abdication II 3. Go Hack Yourself 4. Transpersonal Sanity 5. After Life 6. Death By Dying 7. Self-Anointed Gurus 8. Seeing Is Not Believing 9. Morality vs Right-Action 10. Escape from Paradise 11. Stranger in a Strange Land 12. Surrender vs Abdication 13. Universal Falsifier 14. On Jedvaita 15. How’s the View? 16. Under the Influence 17. Shit Don’t Happen 18. Crime & Punishment 19. Groupthink 20. Drama & Stuff 21. City of Gloom 22. Big Red Button 23. Only One Question 24. The Bamboozle 25. Ministry of Education 26. The Herd in a Nutshell 27. I ...

1. Game Changer 2. A&E Revisited 3. What If Maya Quit? 4. An Awakening Machine 5. People I Know 6. Of Agni Born 7. Not-Two vs All-Is-One III 8. Next-Gen Zen 9. Divine Discontent 10. Song of Myself 11. Mayan Yoga 12. Embrace Your Inner Vulcan 13. Cinéma Vérité 14. Advaitin, Heal Thyself 15. Me On Me 16. Such Is Life 17. Warden Maya’s Escape Club 18. Above the Smokeline 19. Waterline 1: I Marks the Spot 20. Waterline 2: The Hot Zone 21. Lone Wolf 22. The Nonduality Show 23. A Victimless Crime 24. F.U.B.A.R. 25. The Light Side of Dark Emotion 26. Amor Fati 27. Hyper-Silliness 28. Baggage ...

Jedvaita subscriber content is now available in ebooks containing 33 Jed McKenna essays each. 1. A Walking Shadow 2. Going Nowhere Fast 3. Invisible Walls 4. Palpable Absurdity 5. The Real Big Brother 6. The Ganzfeld Analog 7. Game of Nonduality 8. Angelica Demonica 9. Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit 10. Death of a Dustbunny 11. Am I Happier Than You? 12. Cocreative Dreamstate 13. Speaking of Karma 14. Speaking of Nihilism 15. Speaking of Agnosticism 16. Off the Beaten Path 17. Temple Tantrum 18. Dreamstate Tapestry 19. Awakening Nightmare 20. Think Better 21. Turtles All the Way Up 22. Terminal ...

In this beautiful and rich New York Times bestselling retrospective, the entertainment icon shares with his fans the life lessons he has learned throughout a career that spanned six decades. Illustrated with Bennett’s own hand-drawn artwork, Life Is a Gift is a work that will captivate...

Volume 7 Contents 1. Puzzle Master 2. Riptide 3. Reality Check 4. Phantom Numbers 5. Deus Deceptor 6. A Nobler Race of Men 7. The Curse of the Brainy Class 8. Defeat Is Victory 9. Cancer Inc 10. Lucidity and the Tao 11. Nonduality (does not equal) Spirituality 12. Sagan’s Folly 13. Graduate Redux 14. Practical Mindfulness 15. There Can Be Only One 16. Dharma Dueling with A.I. 17. Seahaven 18. Black Comedy 19. Animated Mannequins 20. Intelligent Awareness 21. Eat When Tired 22. Head on Fire 23. Zen Is Dead 24. Wrong-Ass Mountain 25. Figure the Odds 26. Burning Discontent 27. Nonduality Is ...

1. Controlled Demolition 2. Song of the Open Road 3. Residual Self-Image 4. Barnyard Dreams 5. Hysterically Insane 6. The Human Cocktail 7. Workaday Spirituality 8. Paying Lipservice 9. Matter Is Consciousness 10. The Ultimate Truth 11. Thinking Makes It So 12. Spiritual Honeytraps 13. Shiny Baubles 14. Teachings vs Thinking 15. The Opposite of Bonkers 16. Point of No Return 17. True Age 18. Letter to Melissa 19. Today You Are You 20. 10 Spiritual Myths 21. A Clean, Well-Lighted Attic 22. Birth of A Heretic 23. Living In Oblivion 24. Paranormal 25. Universal Deceit 26. As Broad As the Sky ...

Jedvaita subscriber content is now available in ebooks containing 33 Jed McKenna essays each. 1. Maya’s Madhouse 2. Failure Is Victory 3. TIITIOTTIATI 4. RBD 5. Pain & Boredom 6. Prickly Folk 7. Brain Cloud 8. Desire vs Obsession 9. Awareness Abhors a Gap 10. Spitballing 11. Self-Inquiry 12. Hard to Believe 13. Top-Down Thinking 14. Avidya & Wrong-Knowing 15. Oil and Water 16. Rabid Badger 17. Think Again 18. Slay Me 19. Spectrum of Awareness 20. Authentic Potential 21. Garden Outcasts 22. Pukey Birds 23. Fearful Symmetry 24. Unique Trajectory 25. A Guy in a Room 26. Authentic Pattern 27....