Living Zen is that rare achievement, both a survey of the rich history of Zen Buddhism and a guide to the practice of this most demanding and effortless art of being. Linssen, a distinguished Belgian scholar, offers a sage corrective to the idea that the Zen way is available only to those prepared to sit life out under the Bhodi-Tree. Gently but insistently, he undermines this typically Western view, inviting and enabling us, as Christmas Humphreys puts it in his preface, to take “the leap from thought to No-thought, from the ultimate duality of Illusion/Reality to a burst of laughter and a cup of tea.”
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This is the most helpful, complete, and well-written book on Zen I have ever read. I first read it a couple of months ago, and I continually return to it to re-read chapters, gaining deeper levels of understanding.
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Living Zen lives up to its title- a book 'alive' with 'presence and soul'. I would highly recommend this book to anyone curious to go beyond any particular religion or system. Linssen's ideas are not a nebulous form of zen 'instruction' but rather a concrete expression of the connection between physics, science, psychology, biology. This book is the most 'complete' book I have ever read.
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What is Zen?,
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A good description of what Zen is about. He uses analogies with scientific principles of chemistry and physics to help explain the teachings of Zen. I recommend it to the scientifically trained.
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Zen Unconscious, Zen Buddhism, Bright Light, Hui Hai, Huang-Po Doctrine of Universal Mind, Sudden Attainment, Louis de Broglie, Mahayanist Buddhism, Roger Godel, Seng Ts'an, Hsi Yun, Hubert Benoit, Tibetan Buddhism, Carlo Suarès, Eternal Present, John of the Cross, Angela of Foligno, Buddhist Scriptures, Professor Edouard Le Roy, Supreme Doctrine New!
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perfect adequacy, correct attention, cosmic impulse, cosmic mind, definite contours, masters insist, correct vision, integrated man, instinctive wisdom, profound nature, positive nucleus Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Zen Unconscious, Zen Buddhism, Bright Light, Hui Hai, Huang-Po Doctrine of Universal Mind, Sudden Attainment, Louis de Broglie, Mahayanist Buddhism, Roger Godel, Seng Ts'an, Hsi Yun, Hubert Benoit, Tibetan Buddhism, Carlo Suarès, Eternal Present, John of the Cross, Angela of Foligno, Buddhist Scriptures, Professor Edouard Le Roy, Supreme Doctrine New!
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- Zen Buddhism by Daisetz T. Suzuki on 18 pages
- Essays in Zen Buddhism, First Series by D.T. Suzuki on 15 pages
- The Supreme Doctrine: Psychological Studies in Zen Thought (Second Edition) by Hubert Benoit on 5 pages
- Zen Buddhism by Christmas Humphreys in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan W. Watts on page 298, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- If the Buddha Got Stuck: A Handbook for Change on a Spiritual Path by Charlotte Sophia Kasl on 4 pages
- Zen Comes West (Curzon Paperbacks) by Christmas Humphreys on page 16, and page 30
- If the Buddha Married: Creating Enduring Relationships on a Spiritual Path (Compass) by Charlotte Kasl in Back Matter
- India Song by Marguerite Duras in Back Matter
- This Book Is Not Required: An Emotional Survival Manual for Students by Inge Bell in Back Matter
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