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Genre: Nonfiction

Sayonara, Mr. Fatty : a geek’s diet memoir

In this uplifting memoir, famous Japanese pop culture “geek” Toshio Okada tells of the diet and lifestyle changes he made in his fight against obesity, and how his public perception dramatically improved as a result of his healthier appearance. Toshio Okada lost 110lbs in one year, without the use of funky dieting techniques or exercises, […]

November 9, 2013
Classics of Buddhism and Zen : the collected translations of Thomas Cleary : volume one : Zen lessons : Zen essence : the five houses of Zen : minding mind : instant Zen

Volume One of Classics of Buddhism and Zen contains teachings predominantly from the Chinese Zen (Chan) tradition, including the writings of revered Chinese masters such as Pai-chang, founder of the Chan monastic tradition; Huang-po, one of the forefathers of the Lin-chi-tsung or Rinzai school; Foyan, the great master of the twelfth-century Chinese Zen “renaissance”; and […]

October 28, 2013
How to raise an ox : Zen practice as taught in Zen Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo, including ten newly translated essays

In this work Francis Dojun Cook has translated ten practice-oriented chapters of Master Eihei Dogen’s masterwork, the Shobogenzo, in which Dogen discusses what is involved in the wholehearted, moment-to-moment practice of Zen, with numerous examples from the lives of past masters.

October 28, 2013
Sounds of valley streams : enlightenment in Dogen’s Zen, translation of nine essays from Shobogenzo

October 28, 2013
Master Dogen’s Shinji Shobogenzo

The Shinji Shobogenzo is a marvelous collection of 301 Zen koan stories in three volumes that the Japanese Buddhist master Dogen collected during his four-year stay in China. The stories were written in Chinese, and are records of conversations between Buddhist masters and their students. Dogen used many of these stories as the basis for […]

October 28, 2013
Enlightenment unfolds : the essential teachings of Zen Master Dogen

Works written by Dogen throughout his life, presented in chronological order, beginning with the journal from his study in China, providing a substantial selection from his masterwork, Treasury of the true dharma eye, and concluding with his spare but eloquent death poem. A number of the selections appear here in English for the first time.

October 28, 2013
The way of everyday life : Zen master Dogen’s Genjokoan with commentary

October 28, 2013
The heart of Dogen’s Shobogenzo

October 28, 2013
March was made of yarn : reflections on the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown

On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake occurred off the northeastern coast of Japan, triggering a 50-foot tsunami that crushed everything in its path—highways, airports, villages, trains, and buses—leaving death and destruction behind, and causing a major radiation leak from five nuclear plants. Here eighteen writers give us their trenchant observations and emotional responses to […]

October 28, 2013
Rational Zen, the mind of Dogen Zenji

Selected translations of the writings of Dogen.

October 28, 2013