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Zen Brush Tao Words

Author : Gene Lavon Porter MA
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 142696210X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Zen Brush Tao Words written by Gene Lavon Porter MA and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For artists, writers, designers, and architects, Zen Brush Tao Words demonstrates the struggle and resolution of bringing together inter-media and new electronic multimedia in an age where the traditional must blend with the modern. Leonardo Da Vince struggled with knowledge through vision at an early age. He perfected his method through his experiments, his art, and his notebooks. Miyamoto Musashi was Japans greatest swordsman. Through great struggle, he perfected a form of strategy and won every match. Later, he wrote The Book of Five Rings, which became the bible of Japanese business strategy. As a boy, Thomas Alva Edison struggled with the Amateur Scientist experiments in Scientific American magazine. Later, his inventions flowed from him like electricity flows along a wire. Walt Disney struggled with the complex movie Fantasia, with its many facets, and later invented the interdisciplinary Disneyland concept, where bits and pieces formed a whole new world. After struggling with the complexities of two masters degrees, Gene Porter discovered the simplicity of Zen in the Sumi-e brush and ink style. He then condensed the Taoist poems of the Tao Te Ching, It was after this struggle that his ideas began to flowsimply and naturally.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Taoism

Author : Brandon Toropov
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440695733
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Taoism written by Brandon Toropov and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’re no idiot, of course. You know Taoism is one of the world’s oldest religions, based on simplicity and balance. However, you may not know it has important parallels with modern Western life: health, ecology, even in such pop culture icons as Luke Skywalker and the Beatles. But you don’t have to sit at the feet of a Taoist master to learn how the Taoist tradition has enlightened seekers throughout the centuries! The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Taoism will show you exactly why Taoist principles appeal to people from every walk of life! In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get: • The history of the Daode Jing, the world’s shortest core religious text, and Laozi, its mysterious author. • The teachings of Zhuangzi, the often-overlooked master sage of Taoism. • An explanation of yin-yang and what it represents. • Taoism’s relationship to Zen Buddhism.

Zen Brushpoems

Author : Ray Grigg
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462901158
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Zen Brushpoems written by Ray Grigg and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of Zen poetry and art blends simple, haiku-like poetry with bold minimalist ink brush drawings. Zen Brushpoems connects the creative insights of Haiku-like poetry with the dynamic interplay of the written word and painted image. This subtle and profound medium of poetic expression has been inspired by the revolutionary work of artist Paul Reps. Each of the 100 brushpoems in this Zen art book is a statement, a declaration, an answer, and finally a question whose purpose is to evoke rather than describe, to suggest rather than explain, to operate rather than close. Like haiku, these brushpoems are deceptively simple. But, if approached with a gentle receptivity, they will resonate deeper and deeper until they begin to fill with the Zen-like awareness that resides so unnoticed in everyday consciousness.

Tao Te Ching

Author : Lao Tzu
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1590305469
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Tao Te Ching written by Lao Tzu and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2007-12-11 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what may be the most faithful translation of the Tao Te Ching, the translators have captured the terse, enigmatic beauty of the original masterpiece without embellishing it with personal interpretation or bogging it down with explanatory notes. By stepping out of the way and letting the original text speak for itself, they deliver a powerfully direct experience of the Tao Te Ching that is a joy to come back to again and again. And for the first time in any translation of the Tao Te Ching, now you can interact with the text to experience for yourself the nuanced art of translating. In each of the eighty-one chapters, one significant line has been highlighted and alongside it are the original Chinese characters with their transliteration. You can then turn to the glossary and translate this line on your own, thereby deepening your understanding of the original text and of the myriad ways it can be translated into English. Complementing the text are twenty-three striking ink paintings brushed by Stephen Addiss and an introduction by the esteemed Asia scholar Burton Watson.

The Zen Art Book

Author : Stephen Addiss
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 159030747X
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Zen Art Book written by Stephen Addiss and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When a Zen master puts brush to paper, the resulting image is an expression of the quality of his or her mind. It is thus a teaching, intended to compassionately stop us in our tracks and to compel us to consider ultimate truth. Here, forty masterpieces of painting and calligraphy by renowned masters such as Hakuin Ekaku (1685–1768) and Gibon Sengai (1750–1837) are reproduced along with commentary that illuminates both the art and its teaching. The authors’ essays provide an excellent introduction to both the aesthetic and didactic aspects of this art that can be profound, perplexing, serious, humorous, and breathtakingly beautiful—often all within the same simple piece."--Publisher description.

Bankei Zen

Author : Yoshito Hakeda
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802196969
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Bankei Zen written by Yoshito Hakeda and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The teachings of the groundbreaking Buddhist Zen Master: “Should remain for years to come the standard source book for the Western student of Zen” (Douglas Harding, The Middle Way). The eccentric Bankei (1622–1693) has long been an underground hero in the world of Zen. At a time when Zen was becoming overly formalized in Japan, he stressed its relevance to everyday life, insisting on the importance of naturalness and spontaneity. This volume presents his teachings—as refreshing and iconoclastic today as they were three hundred years ago—in a fluent translation by Peter Haskel, accompanied by a vivid account of Bankei’s life and times, illustrations, and extensive notes for the scholar. “Mr. Haskel has furnished us with an accurate and polished translation that fully captures the lively colloquial style of the original. The late Professor Hakeda has rendered invaluable assistance in resolving many linguistic problems and in furnishing important insights into the text itself.” —Philip Yampolsky “A splendid record of a dramatically different Zen master.” —Huston Smith “Bankei Zen has given us the essence of Bankei’s unique teaching . . . one which seems particularly appropriate to our time.” —Nancy Wilson Ross

Zen and the Brain

Author : James H. Austin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262260350
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Zen and the Brain written by James H. Austin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999-06-04 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A neuroscientist and Zen practitioner interweaves the latest research on the brain with his personal narrative of Zen. Aldous Huxley called humankind's basic trend toward spiritual growth the "perennial philosophy." In the view of James Austin, the trend implies a "perennial psychophysiology"—because awakening, or enlightenment, occurs only when the human brain undergoes substantial changes. What are the peak experiences of enlightenment? How could these states profoundly enhance, and yet simplify, the workings of the brain? Zen and the Brain presents the latest evidence. In this book Zen Buddhism becomes the opening wedge for an extraordinarily wide-ranging exploration of consciousness. In order to understand which brain mechanisms produce Zen states, one needs some understanding of the anatomy, physiology, and chemistry of the brain. Austin, both a neurologist and a Zen practitioner, interweaves the most recent brain research with the personal narrative of his Zen experiences. The science is both inclusive and rigorous; the Zen sections are clear and evocative. Along the way, Austin examines such topics as similar states in other disciplines and religions, sleep and dreams, mental illness, consciousness-altering drugs, and the social consequences of the advanced stage of ongoing enlightenment.

Practical Zen

Author : Julian Daizan Skinner
Publisher : Singing Dragon
ISBN 13 : 0857013211
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Practical Zen written by Julian Daizan Skinner and published by Singing Dragon. This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zen master Julian Daizan Skinner guides the reader through a sequence of meditation techniques that can safely lead even a complete novice through to advanced levels. Based on his own long experience of the Rinzai Zen tradition, as taught by the great seventeenth-century masters, Hakuin and Bankei, Daizan highlights the key points for success and addresses the pitfalls. Structured around a traditional teaching framework called "The two wings of a bird," Daizan clearly lays-out how these methods build and combine to create a transformative and sustaining practice. The book contains an extremely useful section describing the experiences of western practitioners who have successfully applied this framework within the pressures of modern life. The final section features key source texts in translation, making the book a complete introduction and guide to Zen meditation. The work of a master, the book speaks at a deep level, with utmost simplicity.

Mystics and Zen Masters

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429944005
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Mystics and Zen Masters written by Thomas Merton and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1999-11-29 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts-early monasticism, Russian Orthodox spirituality, the Shakers, and Zen Buddhism-with characteristic Western directness. Merton not only studied these religions from the outside but grasped them by empathy and living participation from within. "All these studies," wrote Merton, "are united by one central concern: to understand various ways in which men of different traditions have conceived the meaning and method of the 'way' which leads to the highest levels of religious or of metaphysical awareness."

Lichens

Author : Vincent Zonca
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509553460
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Lichens written by Vincent Zonca and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. They are one of those organisms that seem to offer nothing to hold our gaze. But the more time we spend with lichens, the more they reveal their beauty, their mysteries and their strange power of attraction. Part-algae and part-fungus, lichens call into question our customary ways of classifying forms of life, and allow us to conceive of an ecology that is no longer based on distinctions between nature and culture, urban and rural, competition and cooperation. The result of several years of investigation carried out on several different continents, this remarkable book offers an original, radical, and, like its subject matter, symbiotic reflection on this common but mostly invisible form of life, blending cultures and disciplines, drawing on biology, ecology, philosophy, literature, poetry, even graphic art. What if lichens were at the heart of some of the most pressing and topical questions of our day? Does the fact that they can live everywhere, even in very harsh environments, that they persist when almost all other traces of life have disappeared, mean that, despite their fragility, lichens are a force of resistance? After reading this book you will never see lichens, or the world, in the same way again.

Symbolism in Korean Ink Brush Painting

Author : Francis Mullany
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004213619
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Symbolism in Korean Ink Brush Painting written by Francis Mullany and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 200 colour plates, and for the first time available as a study in English, this volume explores the vast heritage of Korean ink brush painting, providing a rich panorama of information that stretches across the entire spectrum of Korean art – including painting, pottery, calligraphy and literature, which will have wide appeal, not least to art lovers and students of Korean Studies. Part I presents the material in essay form; Part II, which uses a dictionary format, summarizes the information in Part I and highlights the hidden messages and symbolism inherent in literati ink brush painting in Korea. When China and Japan opened up to outside influence in the nineteenth century, Korea maintained a closed-door policy, becoming known as the ‘hermit kingdom’, only to be swallowed up in the struggle for hegemony between the Great Powers. Annexation by Japan in 1910 threatened Korea’s language and culture with extinction. Liberation in 1945 was followed by the tragedy of the Korean War in 1950. In the period of reconstruction after the Korean War, artists and scholars faced the task of retrieving Korea’s endangered cultural tradition. Ink brush painting is a unique part of this tradition; its history stretches back through the Choson dynasty when Chinese influences were assimilated and absorbed and made into Korea’s distinctive tradition.

Essays in Zen Buddhism

Author : Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Zen Buddhism written by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Privileged Witness

Author : Julie Hill
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496916840
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Privileged Witness written by Julie Hill and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 27 travel essays written over the last decade is based on Julie Hills journeys to far-flung destinations of the world. Often welcomed by her hosts not as a customer or a trader but as a confessor and a friend, Julie Hill vindicates their trust and repays their kindness by bringing their stories to life in this book. She goes where most others cannot or would not, emerging with priceless observations and insights on places and lifestyles that may soon vanish in this fast-changing world. One of the great joys of travel is reaching beyond the boundaries of geography, politics, culture, and our own perspective. With Julie, we wander to the edge of the map, where those boundaries blur, such as to the seriously remote, sensationally scenic parts of Bhutan; we examine Myanmars complex history, diversity, and changing society. In Indias Varanasi, Hinduisms most important pilgrimage site, we look at the stirring soul of India from a boat on the sacred Ganges. There is so much to see, do, and fall in love with in Africa, from Ethiopias entrancingly remote regions to Malis mystical Timbuktu, going on safari in Namibia or standing in the spray of the mighty Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. As lush as a dream of green heaven, Papua New Guineas air comes alive with Picasso birds, and its jungles, mountains, and people mesmerize the visitor. Along the Sepik we encounter river dwellers in villages with no name. Here we see man in his environment as it as been for thousands of years, and can almost believe the world was born yesterday. With an intense curiosity about the places she visits and in intelligible, jargon-free prose, Julie Hill examines the delights, wonders, and conflicts of the natural and human world, seeking to rediscover, as Anatole France put it, the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

Essays in Zen Buddhism

Author : Daisetsz Teitaro Suzuki
Publisher : 遇光書林
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays in Zen Buddhism written by Daisetsz Teitaro Suzuki and published by 遇光書林. This book was released on 2023-11-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an "Essay in Zen Buddhism" published by D. T. Suzuki in 1927.Its source material is a text from the Gutenberg Project.This book is a simple introduction to Zen Buddhism and its higher concept, Mahayana Buddhism. Before the text, the editor, Takahisa Kanai, wrote a preface, "Introduction to Buddhism". Zen is the great way of Buddhism. It is a way of sitting quietly and trying to achieve a deep awakening of wisdom through meditation. This awakening is not exclusive to the individual. One's awakening awakens others. It is an act of altruism that brings happiness to others. This is why Zen is said to be the main gateway to Buddhism. Please use these passages as clues to gain profound wisdom. Let's seek Nirvana through D.T.'s kind guidance, which is his altruistic service to us.

The Way of Zen

Author : Alan Watts
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307784347
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Way of Zen written by Alan Watts and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his definitive introduction to Zen Buddhism, Alan Watts ("the perfect guide for a course correction in life" —Deepak Chopra), explains the principles and practices of this ancient religion. 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. Watts saw Zen as “one of the most precious gifts of Asia to the world,” and in The Way of Zen he gives this gift to readers everywhere. “Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Watts had the rare gift of ‘writing beautifully the unwritable.’” —Los Angeles Times

I don't write; I kiss the breeze and Brush the words on the wind

Author : Ali Khaghani
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483628833
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book I don't write; I kiss the breeze and Brush the words on the wind written by Ali Khaghani and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without you, forevermore I m homeless at home Soft hands reach to touch Hard feelings dissolve in the Rain, her eyes part the sky, the Taste of truth on lips sealed with A kiss, palms pressed against the Partition, touch me once and I ll Rise up from the past to ravish All your dreams again today He gave us the world, but everything just wasn t enough

The Zen of Ecopoetics

Author : Enaiê Mairê Azambuja
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003837840
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Zen of Ecopoetics written by Enaiê Mairê Azambuja and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive study investigating the cultural affinities and resonances of Zen in early twentieth-century American poetry and its contribution to current definitions of ecopoetics, focusing on four key poets: William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and E.E. Cummings. Bringing together a range of texts and perspectives and using an interdisciplinary approach that draws on Eastern and Western philosophies, including Zen and Taoism, posthumanism and new materialism, this book adds to and extends the field of ecocriticism into new debates. Its broad approach, informed by literary studies, ecocriticism, and religious studies, proposes the expansion of ecopoetics to include the relationship between poetic materiality and spirituality. It develops ‘cosmopoetics’ as a new literary-theoretical concept of the poetic imagination as a contemplative means to achieving a deeper understanding of the human interdependence with the non-human. Addressing the critical gap between materialism and spirituality in modernist American poetry, The Zen of Ecopoetics promotes new forms of awareness and understanding about our relationship with non-human beings and environments. It will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students in ecocriticism, literary theory, poetry, and religious studies.