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Product Description: 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...read more
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9781590307472 | 1 original edition (Shambhala Pubns, November 3, 2009), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: When a Zen master puts brush to paper, the resulting image is an expression of the quality of his or her mind.

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Product Description: When the thirteenth century master Eihei Dogen, one of the most influential thinkers in Zen Buddhism and founder of the Japanese Soto school, returned to Japan after four years of study in China, the fruit of his pilgrimage was recorded in a collection of koans called the Chinese Shobogenzo, also known as Shinji or Mana Shobogenzo...read more
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9781590302422 | Shambhala Pubns, December 13, 2005, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: When the thirteenth century master Eihei Dogen, one of the most influential thinkers in Zen Buddhism and founder of the Japanese Soto school, returned to Japan after four years of study in China, the fruit of his pilgrimage was recorded in a collection of koans called the Chinese Shobogenzo, also known as Shinji or Mana Shobogenzo.

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Product Description: The ensō is one of the most prevalent images of Zen art, and it has become a kind of symbol of the clean and strong Japanese aesthetic. It has been subject to a rich variety of interpretations—seen as everything from a rice cake to a symbol of infinity...read more
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9780834805750 | Weatherhill, March 27, 2007, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The ensō is one of the most prevalent images of Zen art, and it has become a kind of symbol of the clean and strong Japanese aesthetic.

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9781590306086 | Weatherhill, February 10, 2009, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The ensō is one of the most prevalent images of Zen art, and it has become a kind of symbol of the clean and strong Japanese aesthetic.

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Product Description: In this treasury of Zen wisdom based on his talks, the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt. Tremper, New York, explores the eight areas of study that are the focus for training in his community: meditation, study with the teacher, liturgy, art practice, body practice, the study of scriptures, work practice, and the moral and ethical teachings...read more
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9781590305775 | Shambhala Pubns, December 2, 2008, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In this treasury of Zen wisdom based on his talks, the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt.
9780877734451 | 1 edition (Shambhala Pubns, July 8, 2008), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Essays on Zen Buddhism discuss meditation, teaching, liturgy, art practice, body practice, work practice, and scripture study

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Product Description: Dharma combat is a practice form unique to Zen in which student and teacher confront each other before a live audience, so to speak. The Zen master takes a seat at the front of the meditation hall and is approached by students, one by one, who challenge the master with questions...read more
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9781590305652 | Shambhala Pubns, June 10, 2008, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Dharma combat is a practice form unique to Zen in which student and teacher confront each other before a live audience, so to speak.

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Product Description: 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...read more
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9781590305331 | Shambhala Pubns, March 11, 2008, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Zen rituals—such as chanting, bowing, lighting incense before the Buddha statue—are ways of recognizing the sacredness in all of life.

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Product Description: These magical photographs of ordinary land- and waterscapes all share a mysterious quality of presence that calls into question any distinction we might make between ourselves and the natural world. They thus represent the renowned nature photographer–Zen master’s teaching on the interconnectedness of all things...read more
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9781590305423 | Shambhala Pubns, March 11, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: These magical photographs of ordinary land- and waterscapes all share a mysterious quality of presence that calls into question any distinction we might make between ourselves and the natural world.

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Product Description: A work of Zen art is a teaching in visual form, intended to be contemplated not only for its beauty, but for the secrets it contains about being fully human, fully alive. As teaching, Zen art can be profound, perplexing, serious, humorous—sometimes all within the same piece; as art, it stands somewhere outside standard aesthetic conventions, even those of other schools of Buddhist art...read more
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9781590305010 | Shambhala Pubns, October 9, 2007, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A work of Zen art is a teaching in visual form, intended to be contemplated not only for its beauty, but for the secrets it contains about being fully human, fully alive.

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Product Description: This book of exquisite photographs arises from the premise that unless we love nature, we will not work to save it from exploitation and eventual destruction. The rich mixture of photographs, Zen poems, and essays presented on these pages is intended to open our hearts to the wild and the wilderness, and to direct us to the ways in which we can heal the earth...read more
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9781882795116 | Dharma Communications, August 1, 2000, cover price $44.50 | About this edition: This book arises from the premise that unless we love nature, we will not work to save it from exploitation and eventual destruction.

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9781590304860 | Shambhala Pubns, November 13, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This book of exquisite photographs arises from the premise that unless we love nature, we will not work to save it from exploitation and eventual destruction.
9781882795123 | Dharma Communications, August 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This book of exquisite photographs arises from the premise that unless we love nature, we will not work to save it from exploitation and eventual destruction.

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Product Description: According to Zen teaching, everything in the universe exists interdependently, so valuing the welfare of one being over another, or of humans over the planet, makes no sense at all. This teaching, which can empower us to care passionately about the earth and its future, is not only a Zen principle, it’s something that comes up for anyone who carefully investigates the nature of reality...read more
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9781590304907 | Shambhala Pubns, September 11, 2007, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: According to Zen teaching, everything in the universe exists interdependently, so valuing the welfare of one being over another, or of humans over the planet, makes no sense at all.

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Product Description: Through Zen meditation it is possible to find stillness of mind, even amidst our everyday activities—and this practical book-and-CD set reveals how. John Daido Loori, one of America's leading Zen teachers, offers everything needed to begin a meditation practice...read more
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9781590304792 | Shambhala Pubns, September 4, 2007, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Through Zen meditation it is possible to find stillness of mind, even amidst our everyday activities—and this practical book-and-CD set reveals how.

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Product Description: The Buddha atained enlightenmnet while practicing setated meditation, zazen. Zen practice constantly returns to that fundamental way of studying the self. This minibook provides insturction in zazen, explaining the differeent sitting positions and breathing techniques, as well as giving suggestions for establishing a practice at home...read more
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9781882795017, titled "The Still Point: A Beginner's Guide to Zen Meditation" | Dharma Communications, December 1, 1996, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: The Buddha atained enlightenmnet while practicing setated meditation, zazen.

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Product Description: There is a common misconception that to practice Zen is to practice meditation and nothing else. In truth, traditionally, the practice of meditation goes hand-in-hand with moral conduct. In Invoking Reality, John Daido Loori, one of the leading Zen teachers in America today, presents and explains the ethical precepts of Zen as essential aspects of Zen training and development...read more
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9781590304594 | Shambhala Pubns, June 12, 2007, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: There is a common misconception that to practice Zen is to practice meditation and nothing else.
9781882795031 | Dharma Communications, December 1, 1998, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The Buddhist Precepts form one of the most vital areas of spiritual practice.

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A guide to the subtle practice of koan study examines the history of the study and use of koans in China and Japan, includes writings from the masters of Japanese Zen, and vividly portrays the living tradition of koan introspection today in the East and West. Original.
By Thomas Yuho Kirchner (foreword by) and John Daido Loori (editor)
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9780861713691 | Wisdom Pubns, February 9, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A guide to the subtle practice of koan study examines the history of the study and use of koans in China and Japan, includes writings from the masters of Japanese Zen, and vividly portrays the living tradition of koan introspection today in the East and West.

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An introduction to the creative spirit as it applies within Zen tradition shares personal anecdotes about the author's own experiences, suggesting exercises and visual tools--including the ancient practices of calligraphy, poetry, brush painting, and the tea ceremony--to help readers cultivate spiritual creativity. By the author of and The Eight Gates of Zen. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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9780345462015 | Ballantine Books, June 1, 2004, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: In introduction to the creative spirit as it applies within Zen tradition shares personal anecdotes about the author's own experiences, suggesting exercises and visual tools to help readers cultivate spiritual creativity.

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9780345466334 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, May 31, 2005), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: An introduction to the creative spirit as it applies within Zen tradition shares personal anecdotes about the author's own experiences, suggesting exercises and visual tools--including the ancient practices of calligraphy, poetry, brush painting, and the tea ceremony--to help readers cultivate spiritual creativity.

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By John Daido Loori (editor)
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9788497541619 | Italian edition edition (Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, April 30, 2005), cover price $29.95

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Meditation is made easy in this celebration of a basic meditative art that reaches deep into Chinese and Japanese Buddhism for guidance on how to turn the act of simply sitting into a deeply spiritual act. Original.
By Taigen Dan Leighton (introduced by) and John Daido Loori (editor)
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9780861713943 | 2 edition (Wisdom Pubns, June 1, 2004), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Meditation is made easy in this celebration of a basic meditative art that reaches deep into Chinese and Japanese Buddhism for guidance on how to turn the act of simply sitting into a deeply spiritual act.
9780861713271 | Wisdom Pubns, November 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Presents twenty-two selections spanning 1,500 years from scholars, Zen masters, and contemporary authors writing on the practice of shikantaza or objectless meditation.

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Product Description: This accessible introduction to the philosophy and practice of Zen Buddhism includes a program of study that encompasses practically every aspect of life. The American Zen teacher John Daido Loori shows us that Zen practice should include not only meditation, the study of Zen literature and liturgy, and moral and ethical action, but should also manifest in work, artistic, and everyday activities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781570629525 | 1 edition (Shambhala Pubns, September 1, 2002), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This accessible introduction to the philosophy and practice of Zen Buddhism includes a program of study that encompasses practically every aspect of life.

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A parable on a man's journey toward enlightenment combines verse with a collection of traditional Zen pictures that depict his quest to find and tame an ox and presents principles that can be used as a compass for a lifetime. Original. 15,000 first printing.
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9781570629518 | 1 edition (Shambhala Pubns, August 1, 2002), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A parable on a man's journey toward enlightenment combines verse with a collection of traditional Zen pictures that depict his quest to find and tame an ox and presents principles that can be used as a compass for a lifetime.

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9780834804333 | Shambhala Pubns, April 1, 2000, cover price $17.95

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Product Description: In Zen liturgy we manifest that which is known to us intuitively in forms that are visible and tangible. Yet, generally, there is very little explanation available about liturgy. This book addresses both the spirit and the forms of Zen liturgy, especially as they can function for lay practitioners...read more
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9781882795079 | Dharma Communications, December 1, 1999, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: In Zen liturgy we manifest that which is known to us intuitively in forms that are visible and tangible.

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Product Description: From ancient Chinese sages to Thoreau, Hesse, and Whitman, voices of wisdom and compassion have spoken the truth of the mutual identity of all things. But the way we live our lives is as if that were not so. In this book, Abbot John Daido Loori reveals an underlying environmental ethic animating these teachings, and shows how it can serve as a well-spring for our appreciation of this great earth in the new millenium...read more
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9781882795048 | Dharma Communications, December 1, 1999, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: From ancient Chinese sages to Thoreau, Hesse, and Whitman, voices of wisdom and compassion have spoken the truth of the mutual identity of all things.

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Product Description: The Ten Oxherding Pictures, accompanying ancient poems and a modern commentary by Abbot John Daido Loori, are a sketch of the Zen path of exhaustive study of the self and the realization of the ultimate nature of reality. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781882795055 | Dharma Communications, December 1, 1999, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The Ten Oxherding Pictures, accompanying ancient poems and a modern commentary by Abbot John Daido Loori, are a sketch of the Zen path of exhaustive study of the self and the realization of the ultimate nature of reality.

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9781882795130 | Dharma Communications, January 1, 1999, cover price $32.95

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Product Description: In Zen liturgy we manifest that which is known to us intuitively as a tangible reality. This book is a collection of chants used during services and ceremonies at Zen Mountain Monastery. A chapter by Abbot John Daido Loori anchors the book and presents an introduction to this powerful practice...read more
By John Daido Loori (editor)
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9781882795154 | Dharma Communications, December 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In Zen liturgy we manifest that which is known to us intuitively as a tangible reality.

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9781882795147 | Dharma Communications, December 1, 1998, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: In Zen liturgy we manifest that which is known to us intuitively as a tangible reality.

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