Zen Philosophy

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    • Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind
    • By: Norman Fischer, Susan Moon
    • Narrated by: Norman Fischer, Susan Moon
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • An accessible and enjoyable introduction to Zen Buddhist practice - in a listener-friendly question-and-answer format - by two highly regarded teacher-writers....

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    • The Authentic Gate
    • By: Yamada Koun
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Why practice Zen? What sets Zen apart from religion? What are its different practices? These questions, and more, are examined and answered by Zen Master Koun Yamada, whose Dharma heirs include Robert Aitken, Ruben Habito, and David Loy....

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    • By: Alan Watts
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Stockwell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • With a rare combination of freshness and lucidity, he delves into the origins and history of Zen to explain what it means for the world today with incredible clarity....

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    • By: Joe Hyams
    • Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
    • Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,346 ratings
    • Joe Hyams vividly recounts his more than twenty-five years of experience in the martial arts....

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    • The Book of the Samurai
    • By: Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson - translator
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,419 ratings
    • Living and dying with bravery and honor is at the heart of Hagakure, a series of texts written by an 18th-century samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo....

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    • Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
    • By: Shunryu Suzuki
    • Narrated by: Peter Coyote
    • Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,353 ratings
    • In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few. So begins this most beloved of all American Zen works....

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    • Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment
    • By: Roshi Philip Kapleau
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 421 ratings
    • 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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    • Waking Up in the Present
    • By: Thomas Cleary
    • Narrated by: Mitchell Ryan
    • Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • Find yourself and tune in: such is the message of Zen. Instant Zen presents the teachings of Foyan, a twelfth-century Chinese Zen master recognized as one of the greatest masters of the Song dynasty Zen renaissance in China....

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    • The Transformation of Desire
    • By: Lama Thubten Yeshe, Jonathan Landaw - editor
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 666 ratings
    • What is tantra? Who is qualified to practice it? How should it be practiced? What are the results? According to Buddhism, every human being has the potential to achieve....

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    • Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong
    • By: Norman Fischer
    • Narrated by: Norman Fischer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 417 ratings
    • Lojong is the Tibetan Buddhist practice that involves working with short phrases (called "slogans") as a way of generating bodhichitta, the heart and mind of enlightened compassion....

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    • A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji
    • By: Shinshu Roberts, Norman Fischer - foreword
    • Narrated by: Leslie Howard
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • A tour-de-force guide to Zen Master Dogen's most subtle and sophisticated philosophical premises: that being and time are inseparable....

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    • The Zen Way to True Contentment
    • By: Ezra Bayda
    • Narrated by: Tom Pile
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 262 ratings
    • In Beyond Happiness, Bayda draws on Zen teachings to question our conventional notions about what happiness is and where we can find it....

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    • A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan
    • By: Kaiten Nukariya
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Techosky
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Zen was uniquely suited to the Samurai of Japan. The high moral principles of Buddhism....

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    • Essential Mindfulness Practices
    • By: Thich Nhat Hanh
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,090 ratings
    • Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh's key teaching is that through mindfulness, we can learn to live in the present moment and develop a sense of peace....

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    • Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm
    • By: Thích Nhất Hạnh
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,714 ratings
    • Without fear, we are able to see more clearly our connections to others. Without fear, we have more room for understanding and compassion....

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    • More Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
    • By: Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick - editor
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • The teachings of Shunryu Suzuki have served for innumerable people as the gateway to Zen practice and meditation. In Zen Is Right Now, devoted student and biographer David Chadwick sheds new light on Suzuki’s presence and teachings through selected quotes from his lectures....

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    • By: Robert Greene
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24,896 ratings
    • Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....

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    • The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit in Modern Psychology and the Wisdom of the East
    • By: Alan Watts
    • Narrated by: Kern Schmidt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 165 ratings
    • Here, in Alan Watts’s groundbreaking third book (originally published in 1940), he offers a more challenging thesis: authentic happiness comes from embracing life as a whole in all its contradictions and paradoxes, an attitude that Watts calls the “way of acceptance"....

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