"Mindfulness is in fashion. Oprah loves it, Google teaches it to employeesit has become widespread as a cure-all for stress, health problems and psychological difficulties, interpersonal trouble, and existential anxiety. But in the context of the Zen Buddhist tradition, what more might mindfulness have to offer? The Zen teachers gathered here each offer a unique perspective on what "mindfulness" means, its strengths, and the potential pitfalls"--Publisher....

"Beloved Buddhist nun and bestselling author Pema Chd̲rn̲'s wise words on working with the countless changes in our lives to find more freedom and less fear. As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment-the end of a relationship, the end of a day, the end of a breath, and ultimately the end of life. And behind each ending is a beginning-though it may be unclear what the beginning holds. How We Live is How We'll Die shares Pema...

Draws on spiritual insights, combined with concise meditations, reflections, and contemplations, to present techniques for diffusing anger, fear, jealousy, and other powerful emotions and cultivating love in every aspect of life.

"Based on a three-month retreat given by Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh in the winter of 1991, this book gives an historical account of the emergence of the bodhisattva ideal during the first century CE, together with Thich Nhat Hanh's previously unpublished commentaries on two early Mahayana sutras--the Ugrapariprccha Sutra (The Questions of the Householder Ugra) and the Vimalakirti-nirdesa Sutra (The Instructions of Vimalakirti). About 150 years after the...

"Imagine yourself in Kyōto, Japan, gazing at a garden of emptiness. How would you understand what you are seeing? What is the history of this contemplative art form, which has flourished for centuries in Kyōto, the famed center of Zen arts? What aesthetic principles inform it? Through photographs and commentary, Gardens of Awakening guides you through a series of Zen gardens created from the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries. Some are teeming...