For about a year after Ruth Ozeki’s father died in 1998, she would hear him clearly calling her name while she washed the dishes or folded laundry. The award-winning author, filmmaker and Soto Zen ...
“A Spiritual Renegade’s Guide to the Good Life” By Lama Marut. An Atria paperback (division of Simon & Schuster), New York, 2012. 290 pages. $16 “The Truth Never Fails: A Zen Memoir in Four Seasons” ...
Nearly 50 years ago, a Zen Buddhist monk — fleeing a cloud of suspicion — arrived in Manhattan, penniless and alone. Eido Shimano would quickly build an unrivaled community of followers: Zen students ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. What is Zen? This school of Buddhist thought is often used as shorthand to mean anything calm or meditative. The hashtag #museummomentofzen has ...
As anyone who hasn’t spent the last few years meditating in a cave in Asia knows, American Buddhism is booming. The 1990s saw three Buddhist movies and a gaggle of celebrity Buddhist pitchmen, ...
LET’S start with the basics. Koans (pronounced co-ann or co-arn, depending on who you talk to) are paradoxical vignettes integral to the practice of Zen Buddhism. A grain of sand thrown into the ...
HANOI, Vietnam—Thich Nhat Hanh, the revered Zen Buddhist monk who helped pioneer the concept of mindfulness in the West and socially engaged Buddhism in the East, has died. He was 95. A post on the ...