Zen Buddhism

This is a unique guide to coping withchallenging people using practical Zen and mindfulness tools. It helps readers explore their reactions, break free from knee-jerk response patterns andsee if these peoplemay in fact prove to be useful teachers in life troublesomeBuddhas.

For centuries, The Blue Cliff Record has stood as one of the preeminent scriptures of the Zen Buddhist tradition in China, Japan, and Korea. However, until now there has been no published commentary by a contemporary Zen Master to assist readers in understanding its counterintuitive and sometimes baffling teachings.

The three most venerated sutras of Zen in a true pocket-sized edition from a legendary practitioner and translator of Buddhist teachings.

The first collection of dharma talks from esteemed Zen Buddhist priest Kyogen Carlson.

"There's so much to learn and so much to know. It's good to keep moving forward. And yet whatever we have is, in a very profound way, absolutely complete and always enough."--Kyogen Carlson

The writings of the twelfth-century Chinese Zen master Ta Hui are as immediately accessible as those of any contemporary teacher, and this book, which introduced them to the English-speaking world in the 1970s, has become a modern classica regular feature of recommended reading lists for Zen centers across America, even though the book has becom