{"title":"Recommended Reading","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe founder of Zen, Bodhidharma, said that Zen does not rely on words and letters. However, most western Buddhist practitioners are not familiar with the historical, philosophical and psychological underpinnings of the tradition, so Buddhist Study is critical to establishing a sound religious practice. Though words are not the same as the reality they describe, when used skillfully, they can act as a medium for direct realization. These titles come from the Mountains \u0026amp; Rivers Order's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Recommended Reading\" href=\"http:\/\/zmm.mro.org\/training-in-the-order\/recommended-reading\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRecommended Reading List\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"eight-gates-of-zen","title":"The Eight Gates of Zen: A Program of Zen Training","description":"\u003cp\u003eby John Daido Loori\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis classic by the founder of Zen Mountain Monastery is essential reading for anyone interested in establishing a Zen practice. In it, Daido Roshi explores how to manifest our inherent wisdom and compassion in every aspect of life. This book includes the program of study used in the Mountains and Rivers Order called the Eight Gates of Zen, as well as Daido Roshi's own photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 218 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as a specially priced set with Finding the Still Point: A Beginner's Guide to Zen Meditation by John Daido Loori.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Store Weighed Items","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32438015885450,"sku":"B-056-SH","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0307\/5683\/1370\/products\/b_056_sh_front_web__54855.jpg?v=1739049292"},{"product_id":"the-heart-of-being","title":"The Heart of Being: Moral and Ethical Teachings of Zen Buddhism","description":"\u003cp\u003eby John Daido Loori\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis title is widely considered one of the most comprehensive books available on the precepts—the moral and ethical teachings of Zen Buddhism. Daido Roshi provides a modern interpretation of these precepts, and demonstrates how they can be used to navigate the dilemmas of our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback (237 pages) \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/monasterystore.org\/products\/the-heart-of-being-mp3\"\u003eAlso available as a downloadable mp3 audiobook\u003c\/a\u003e. 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We think of mindfulness and meditation, immersion in a state of being where meaning is found through simplicity. Zen lore has been absorbed by Western practitioners and pop culture alike, yet there is a specific area of this ancient tradition that hasn’t been fully explored in the West. With\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eZen of Creativity \u003c\/em\u003e(first published in 2005)\u003cem\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAmerican Zen master John Daido Loori presented a book that taps the principles of the Zen arts and aesthetic as a means to unlock creativity and find freedom in the various dimensions of our existence. Loori dissolves the barriers between art and spirituality, opening up the possibility of meeting life with spontaneity, grace, and peace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZen Buddhism is steeped in the arts. In spiritual ways, calligraphy, poetry, painting, the tea ceremony, and flower arranging can point us toward our essential, boundless nature. Brilliantly interpreting the teachings of the artless arts, Loori illuminates various elements that awaken our creativity, among them\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003estill point\u003c\/em\u003e, the center of each moment that focuses on the tranquility within;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003esimplicity\u003c\/em\u003e, in which the creative process is uncluttered and unlimited, like a cloudless sky;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003espontaneity\u003c\/em\u003e, a way to navigate through life without preconceptions, with a freshness in which everything becomes new;\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emystery,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ea sense of trust in the unknown;\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecreative feedback,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethe systematic use of an audience to receive noncritical input about our art;\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eart koans,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexercises based on paradoxical questions that can be resolved only through artistic expression. Loori shows how these elements interpenetrate and function not only in art, but in all our endeavors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeautifully illustrated and punctuated with poems and reflections from Loori’s own spiritual journey,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eZen of Creativity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epresents a multilayered, bottomless source of insight into our creativity. Appealing equally to spiritual seekers, artists, and veteran Buddhist practitioners, this book is perfect for those wishing to discover new means of self-awareness and expression—and to restore equanimity and freedom amid the vicissitudes of our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/zmm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Zen_of_Creativity_intro.mp3\"\u003eListen to the introduction.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/monasterystore.org\/pages\/the-zen-of-creativity-an-excerpt\"\u003eRead the first chapter.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-body clearfix\" id=\"left-rail-top\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-return-id=\"mobile-praise\" id=\"desktop-praise\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"seemore-2\" class=\"slot product-praise seemoreenable opened\" target-height=\"401.516\" height-fold=\"280\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"slot-header\"\u003ePraise\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"clearfix\"\u003e“A well-written, wise, insightful book on creativity and Zen, a subject made all the more intriguing and persuasive by Daido Loori’s long experience as a student and teacher in both. The text is enhanced by fine Zen dialogues and stories, poems, koan, photographs, and illustrations as well as apt, stimulating quotations from many writers and Zen teachers. An altogether excellent book.”\u003cbr\u003e—PETER MATTHIESSEN, author of The Snow Leopard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Zen is the immediate suchness and spontaneity of life, a creativity that is art itself. 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The Hsin Hsin Ming is a masterpiece of economy, expressing the profoundest truth of the enlightened mind in only a few short pages. Master Sheng Yen's approach is unique among commentaries on the text: he views it as a supremely useful and practical guide to meditation practice. \"I do not adopt a scholarly point of view or analytical approach,\" he says. \"Rather, I use the poem as a taking-off point to inspire the practitioner and deal with issues that arise during the course of practice. True faith in mind is the belief grounded in realization that we have a fundamental, unmoving, and unchanging mind. 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After analyzing the early Madhyamaka critique of essences, he then examines how Yogācāra texts, such as the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSaṃdhinirmocana Sūtra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStages of Yogic Practice,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e build upon these earlier ideas to argue that our constructive processes also occur unconsciously. 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The author walks us through the Mahāyāna path to this transformation as gracefully laid out in Maitreya’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDistinguishing Phenomena from their Ultimate Nature\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Finally, he considers how Yogācāra perspectives inspire us to rethink religion in our scientific and pluralistic age.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eBill Waldron\u003c\/strong\u003e got his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1990 after extensive travel and study in Asia with native Indian, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese scholars and three years of research at Ōtani University in Kyoto, Japan. He has been teaching courses at Middlebury College since 1996 on Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, comparative philosophies of mind, and theory and method in the study of religion. His publications focus on the Yogācāra school of Indian Buddhism in dialogue with modern thought. His first book, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Buddhist Unconscious: The Ālaya-Vijñāna in the Context of Indian Buddhist Thought\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by RoutledgeCurzon in 2003. He regularly gives talks and workshops at Dharma study groups in America and Asia, focusing on Yogācāra and contemporary topics. When he is not teaching, he may be found wandering the shores of Lake Huron or doing \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ekora\u003c\/i\u003e with his wife in Kathmandu, Nepal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback, 384 pges\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Store Weighed Items","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44477082435750,"sku":"B-WHYYOGACARA","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0307\/5683\/1370\/files\/Wisdom-Publications-Wisdom-Experience-Making-Sense-of-Mind-Only-William-Waldron-yogacara-Chittamatra-Vasubandhu-Buddhist-philosophy.jpg?v=1739048360"}],"url":"https:\/\/monasterystore.org\/collections\/recommended-reading\/tibetan.oembed","provider":"The Monastery Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}