Beastly Morality: Animals as Ethical Agents

Perle Besserman

Columbia University Press

This illuminating handbook shows that Zen transcends time & place, imparting truths as valuable to entrepreneurs & homemakers as they are to monks & poets. Using a series of real-life koans -- modern stories that mirror traditional Zen parables -- Besserman shows how Zen techniques can help us resolve problems in our personal relationships, enhance our work lives, & find new dimensions of physical & emotional well-being. She blends spirituality & practicality as she shows how an understanding that everything just is can free us from empty myths & unlock the wonder in our everyday lives. Even longtime students of the discipline will find new insights in this book, where Besserman shares her vivid, humane vision of the Zen way.

Owning It: Zen And The Art Of Facing Life

Religion & Spirituality

Buddhism

Kodansha

Many Zen Buddhist practitioners have come to question some of Japanese Zen's less democratic aspects-from the strict, male-dominated hierarchies to the racial overtones. At the same time, modern American Buddhists often find it difficult to integrate zazen (seated Zen meditation) with lives of family, work, and social engagement. This book offers a fascinating guide to overcoming both these dilemmas. A study of how one Zen group returned to an ancient Chinese tradition of community meditation practice without a leader or hierarchy, this book also outlines an authentic, "grassroots" approach, urging people from all walks of life to come together in meditation and the study of dharma. Grassroots Zen focuses on the challenge of truly becoming one with the moment in our frantically paced society; of finding a space for the passing self; and of achieving balance between Zen practice and daily life, as well as individuality in community. A thoughtful and absorbing work, Grassroots Zen is an important book for those seeking a practice that is truly of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Grassroots Zen

Manfred B. Steger

Tuttle+publishing

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Crazy Clouds: Zen Radicals, Rebels & Reformers

Politics & Social Sciences

Manfred Steger

Philosophy

Shambhala

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