Living By Vow

Author : Shohaku Okumura
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614290105
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living by Vow written by Shohaku Okumura and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sot Zen priest and Dharma successor of Kosho Uchiyama Roshi explores eight of Zen's most essential and universal liturgical texts and explains how the chants in these works support meditation and promote a life of freedom and compassion.

Author : Jan Chozen Bays
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834803119
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vow-Powered Life written by Jan Chozen Bays and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vow is like a GPS system for your life. When taken on mindfully it can be a source of surprising wisdom and powerful energy, enabling you to accomplish things you never dreamed possible. It can have profound effects even beyond the original intention—and it can even live on after you’re gone. A vow can be as small as the aspiration to smile at someone at least once every day, or it can be as big as marriage; it can be as personal as deciding to be mindful whenever you pick up the phone, or it can be as universal as a commitment to save all sentient beings. But whatever its inspiration, when it’s done with conscious intention a vow becomes a conduit for the energy of your life. In this guide to the vow-directed life, Jan Chozen Bays provides a wealth of practical exercises to use for formulating and implementing vows of your own and for using them to navigate your life with honesty and compassion.

Author : Jan Chozen Bays
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462918050
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jizo Bodhisattva written by Jan Chozen Bays and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jizo Bodhisattva, Zen teacher and practicing pediatrician Jan Chozen Bays explores the development of traditional Buddhist practices related to Jizo, as well as the growing interest in Jizo practice in modern American Zen Buddhism. She also shows how you can incorporate this rich tradition into your own life, through meditations, mantras and chanting. In traditional Buddhist belief, a bodhisattva is an enlightened being who has forsaken entry into nirvana until all beings are saved. Jizo, one of the four great bodhisattvas of Mahayana Buddhism, is know as "the Bodhisattva of the Greatest Vows." He is regarded as the protector of travelers—whether their journeys in the physical world, or in the spiritual reams. Jizo also has special significance for pregnant women and parents whose children have died.

Author : Kosho Uchiyama
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861713575
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opening the Hand of Thought written by Kosho Uchiyama and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-06-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers with infused and wise humor, an eminently practial presentation of meditation, and with clarity shows how Zen Buddhism can be an ever-unfolding path of inquiry.

Author : Gary R. McClain
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780028639581
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Zen Living written by Gary R. McClain and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains what Zen is and how it came to America, how to practice Zen and incorporate it into daily living, and the Zen approach to the world.

Author : Tenshin Reb Anderson
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 193048559X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Upright written by Tenshin Reb Anderson and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Upright takes us beyond the conventional interpretation of ethical precepts to the ultimate meaning that informs them. Reb Anderson first introduces us to the fundamental ideas of Zen Buddhist practice. Who was Shakyamuni Buddha and what was his central teaching? What does it mean to be a bodhisattva and take the bodhisattva vow? Why should we confess and acknowledge our ancient twisted karma? What is the significance of taking refuge in Buddha, dharma, and sangha? The author explores the ten basic precepts, including not killing, not stealing, not lying, not misusing sexuality, and not using intoxicants. A gifted storyteller, Anderson takes us to the heart of situations, where moral judgments are not easy and we do not have all the answers. With wisdom and compassion, he teaches us how to confront the emotional and ethical turmoil of our lives.

Author : Kelsang Gyatso
Publisher : Tharpa Publications US
ISBN 13 : 0948006501
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bodhisattva Vow written by Kelsang Gyatso and published by Tharpa Publications US. This book was released on 1995 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bodhisattva is a friend of the world who, motivated by compassion, spontaneously seeks to improve his or her good qualities for the benefit of each and every living being. With this handbook as our companion, we can enter the Bodhisattva's way of life and progress along the path to full enlightenment.

Author : John Daido Loori
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834823500
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bringing the Sacred to Life written by John Daido Loori and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zen rituals—such as chanting, bowing, lighting incense before the Buddha statue—are ways of recognizing the sacredness in all of life. A ritual is simply a deliberate and focused moment that symbolizes the care with which we should be approaching all of life, and practicing the Zen liturgy is a way of cultivating this quality of attention in order to bring it to everything we do. Here, John Daido Loori demystifies the details of the Zen rituals and highlights their deeper meaning and purpose. We humans are all creatures of ritual, he teaches, whether we recognize it or not. Even if we don’t make ritual part of some religious observance, we still fall into ritual behavior, whether it be our daily grooming sequence or the way we have our morning coffee and paper. We run through our personal rituals unconsciously most of the time, but there is great value to introducing meaningful symbolic rituals into our lives and to performing them deliberately and mindfully—because the way we do ritual affects the way we live the rest of our lives. The book includes instructions for a simple Zen home liturgy, as it is practiced by students of the Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen.

Author : Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Publisher : New Age Books
ISBN 13 : 9788178220673
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bodhisattva Vow written by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and published by New Age Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shantideva
Publisher : Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
ISBN 13 : 8185102597
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to the Bodhisattava's Way of Life written by Shantideva and published by Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shantideva’s Bodhisattvacharyavatara (A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life) holds a unique place in Mahayana Buddhism akin to that of the Dhammapada in Hinayana Buddhism and the Bhagavadgita in Hinduism. In combining those rare qualities of scholastic precision, spiritual depth and poetical beauty, its appeal extends to a wide audience of Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. Composed in India during the 8th century of the Christian era, it has since been an inspiration to millions of people throughout the world. This present translation by Stephen Batchelor is based upon a 12th century Tibetan commentary as orally explained by Ven. Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey. The ninth chapter on wisdom has been expanded for this edition with relevant commentarial passages.