Bernie Glassman(1939–2018)

Zen practitioner and non-profit community developer Bernie Glassman offers powerful teaching stories that illustrate ways of making peace one moment at a time. Each chapter focuses on an event or person and demonstrates how a particular peacemaker vow is put into practice. Through these stories and Glassman's personal testimony we come to understand the essence of peacemaking.

Per più di dieci anni l'attore premio Oscar Jeff Bridges e il suo maestro buddhista, il celebre Bernie Glassman, sono stati amici intimi: un legame cresciuto attraverso ore di spumeggianti, profonde conversazioni. Questo libro cattura il vero spirito del loro rapporto, restituendoci dialoghi frizzanti, intensi, colmi di un umanesimo totale. Divertente e ricco di ispirazione, Il Drugo e il maestro Zen ci ricorda costantemente l'importanza di fare del bene in un mondo difficile.

This introduction to Zen teachings is a “watershed book for Zen students, a good study companion and a trustworthy guide” (Norman Fischer, author of The World Could Be Otherwise) In Infinite Circle, one of America's most distinctive Zen teachers takes a back-to-basics approach to Zen. Glassman illuminates three key teachings of Zen Buddhism, offering line-by-line commentary in clear, direct language: • The Heart Sutra: the Buddha's essential discourse on emptiness, a central sutra of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition. • "The Identity of Relative and Absolute": an eighth-century poem by Shih-t'ou His-ch'ien, a key text of the Soto Zen school. • The Zen precepts: the rules of conduct for laypeople and monks. His commentaries are based on workshops he gave as Abbot of the Zen Community of New York, and they contain within them the principles that became the foundation for the Greyston Mandala of community development organizations and the Zen Peacemaker Order.

Zen is not just about what we do in the meditation hall, but what we do in the home, the workplace, and the community. That's the premise of this book: how to cook what Zen Buddhists call "the supreme meal"—life. It has to be nourishing, and it has to be shared. And we can use only the ingredients a

Voici ici rassemblés deux ouvrages majeurs de Taisen Deshimaru (1914-1982), moine zen de l'école soto qui fonda en France et dans plusieurs pays d'Europe de très nombreux dojos (centres de pratique). Le Trésor du Zen et L'Autre Rive, qui en constitue la suite, se présentent comme des commentaires de l'enseignement de maître Dogen, l'une des plus grandes figures de la tradition zen, qui en fut le véritable fondateur en transmettant dans le Japon du XIIIe siècle l'esprit et la pratique du Ch'an chinois. À travers une discipline à la fois spirituelle et corporelle qui passe par la méditation assise (zazen), le pratiquant découvre les trois éléments fondamentaux de la libération intérieure : la respiration juste, l'état d'esprit juste, la posture juste. Telle est en substance la voie du Zen, enracinée dans la tradition du bouddhisme Mahayana, dont deux textes consacrés à l'amour et à la sagesse sont également commentés par l'auteur.

Présentation des enseignements Zen pratiqués dans le monde entier : méditation préliminaire, shikantaza (simple assise), nature des koans, travail sur Mu, retraites, chants, etc.

A l'instar d'un Thich Nhat Hanh, Bernie Glassman défend l'idée d'un " bouddhisme engagé " dans lequel la conscience issue de la pratique de la méditation s'investit dans des actions quotidiennes au service des autres et de la justice. A travers le commentaire de deux textes fondamentaux, le Sûtra du

The perfect gift for fans of The Big Lebowski, Jeff Bridges's "The Dude", and anyone who could use more Zen in their lives. Zen Master Bernie Glassman compares Jeff Bridges’s iconic role in The Big Lebowski to a Lamed-Vavnik: one of the men in Jewish mysticism who are “simple and unassuming,” and “so good that on account of them God lets the world go on.” Jeff puts it another way. “The wonderful thing about the Dude is that he’d always rather hug it out than slug it out.” For more than a decade, Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges and his Buddhist teacher, renowned Roshi Bernie Glassman, have been close friends. Inspiring and often hilarious, The Dude and the Zen Master captures their freewheeling dialogue and remarkable humanism in a book that reminds us of the importance of doing good in a difficult world.

The Hazy Moon of Enlightenment takes the reader to the next level of Zen practice, exploring some of the more subtle and sophisticated topics in Zen. The first two parts of the book explore enlightenment and delusion: What is nature of enlightenement? What does it mean to describe enlightenment as sudden or gradual? What is the nature of delusion, and how can watch out for the particular delusion that masquerades as enlightenment? The third part looks at "enlightenment in action"--what it means for someone to living and acting in order with the deep wisdom of enlightenment, and how we can practice learning "learning how to be satisfied" and enjoy serenity and transquility. The final section is a moving and powerful firsthand account of one woman's solitary realization of the deepest truths--a story that can become an inspiration for all of us. The contributors to this volume include some the pioneering masters who were seminal in helping Zen take firm root in American soil.