Book by Countryside Commission for Scotland

The West Highland Way: Official guide (Long-distance footpath guide)

Politics & Social Sciences

Aitken, Robert

Politics & Government

H.M.S.O. for the Countryside Commission for Scotland

Understanding Schools as Organizations

Handy, Charles B.

Social Sciences

Penguin??Books

Encouraging Words is a collection of short talks and brief essays that Aitken Rashi has offered his students at meditation retreats during the past two decades. They are arranged according to themes central to all spiritual seekers -- attention, emptiness, coming and going, diligence, death and the afterlife, the sacred self, and the moral path. Aitken provides guidance on pursuing religious practice in a lay context, "re-casting the Dharma to include women, jobs, and family." He also charts his own quest to develop a set of moral codes in keeping with Buddhism's basic precepts and honoring the enormous ethical challenges faced in the twentieth century. From the Trade Paperback edition.

ENCOURAGING WORDS

Religion & Spirituality

Buddhism

Pantheon

America's most senior Zen Roshi presents the "Transcendental Perfections": Giving, Morality, Patience, Zeal, Meditation, Wisdom, Compassion, Aspiration, Spiritual Power, and Knowledge. These 2,000-year-old ideas serve as both methods and goals to develop one's spiritual and moral life. Includes question and answer sections.

The Practice of Perfection: The Paramitas from a Zen Buddhist Perspective

"The inspiration that guided monks and nuns in ancient times is our own deepest incentive as we establish our practice in a world that desperately needs new forms of kinship and love." —Robert Aitken Encouraging Words is a collection of short talks and brief essays that Aitken Rashi has offered his students at meditation retreats during the past two decades. They are arranged according to themes central to all spiritual seekers—attention, emptiness, coming and going, diligence, death and the afterlife, the sacred self, and the moral path. Aitken provides guidance on pursuing religious practice in a lay context, “re-casting the Dharma to include women, jobs, and family.” He also charts his own quest to develop a set of moral codes in keeping with Buddhism's basic precepts and honoring the enormous ethical challenges faced in the twentieth century. Encouraging Words was nominated for the Tricycle Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Buddhism in America.

Encouraging Words: Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students

Philosophy

Making Schools Smarter: A System for Monitoring School and District Progress

Updated Edition of Best Seller! This second edition reflects the authors′ experience in working with many superintendents and principals over the years to use the instruments and procedures outlined in the book to improve organizations.

Education & Teaching

Leithwood, Kenneth

Jantzi, Doris

Schools & Teaching

Corwin

The authors of this useful guide provide a monitoring system to help schools and districts acquire the information they need to achieve their strategic planning, accountability and school-restructuring goals. They describe an ideal, achievable `model′ school and district for the year 2000, indicators of specific features of that school and ways of measuring comparable features of current schools.

A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku & Zen

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Weatherhill

There is a fine art to presenting complex ideas with simplicity and insight, in a manner that both guides and inspires. In Taking the Path of Zen Robert Aitken presents the practice, lifestyle, rationale, and ideology of Zen Buddhism with remarkable clarity. 
The foundation of Zen is the practice of zazen, or mediation, and Aitken Roshi insists that everything flows from the center. He discusses correct breathing, posture, routine, teacher-student relations, and koan study, as well as common problems and milestones encountered in the process. Throughout the book the author returns to zazen, offering further advice and more advanced techniques. The orientation extends to various religious attitudes and includes detailed discussions of the Three Treasures and the Ten Precepts of Zen Buddhism. Taking the Path of Zen will serve as orientation and guide for anyone who is drawn to the ways of Zen, from the simply curious to the serious Zen student.

Taking the Path of Zen

NORTH POINT PRESS

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