Remembering Hozan Alan Senauke (1947-2024) We are sad to share the news that Hozan Alan Senauke passed away on December 22, 2024. We published Alan's book, Turning Words: Transformative Encounters with Buddhist Teachers last year.  Alan touched the hearts of all of us who worked with him.  We share an apreciation of him that Susan

No Beginning, No End An Excerpt from Wait By Cuong Lu About This Title Written as a love letter to those in pain, Wait encourages us to seek out a path to peace and freedom from suffering. Cuong Lu, a long-time disciple of Thich Nhat Hanh, personally witnessed a shooting while fleeing Vietnam in 1975. The memory

The Two Arrows An Excerpt from Being with Dying By Joan Halifax About This Title Everyone who lives must inevitably face death. Inspired by traditional Buddhist teachings and decades of work with the dying and their caregivers, this landmark work on death and dying by beloved Buddhist teacher Joan Halifax is a source of wisdom

Live Blade: The Way of the Sword A Selection from Chapter 13 Excerpted from Three Years on the Great Mountain By Cristina Moon About This Title An invigorating memoir about a young woman pushed to her limits at a Zen monastery in Hawai‘i, where she learns that the key to unlocking the ultimate breakthrough is

Illuminating the Mind to See One's Nature: The Root of Taoist Inner Practice An Excerpt from Taoist Inner Alchemy By Master Huang Yuanji & Ge Guolong Translate by Mattias Daly About This Excerpt Taoism and Buddhism, specifically Chan Buddhism, share many similar ideas including the concept and practice of inner cultivation, the nature of emptiness

Chan & Zen in 2023 Read More We published many books of interest from the Chan and Zen traditions in 2023 See our other Year in Review Guides: Zen and Chan | Tibetan Buddhism | More in Buddhism Yoga | Kids Books Buy 2 books for 20% off, 3 books for 30% off, 4 or

Remembering Jules Shuzen Harris We are sad to share the news that Jules Shuzen Harris passed away on May 8th, 2023 at the age of 83. He was a psychotherapist and Zen teacher, founder, and abbot of Soji Zen Center in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. Based on his decades of experience working with Zen students and psychotherapy

Zen and Chan in 2022 Read More We published several books and audiobooks on Zen and Chan Buddhism in 2022 See our other Year in Review Guides: Theravada/Pali/Insight | Zen and Chan | Tibetan Buddhism Yoga | Personal Development | Kids Books We are very happy to share with you a look back at our

An excerpt from Veteran and Zen teacher Clause Anshin Thomas's At Hell's Gate When listening to a combat veteran speak about the war, pay attention to how you feel and to your reactions to those feelings. Do you want to get away from this person? Do you want to fix him? Are you trying to

The Five Remembrances Buddha urged his disciples to meditate upon the five remembrances. When I first heard them, I thought, Wow! This is harsh! But I shouldn’t have been surprised; they are straightforward reminders of the teaching of impermanence. Here is Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh’s translation.  I am of the nature to grow old.