Appreciate Your Life
The Essence of Zen Practice
A collection of short, inspiring teachings on Zen koans, the Buddha, and more—from a leader in introducing Zen Buddhism to the West
Here is the first major collection of the teachings of Taizan Maezumi Roshi (1931-1995), one of the first Japanese Zen masters to bring Zen to the West and founding abbot of the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Zen Mountain Center in Idyllwild, California. These short, inspiring readings illuminate Zen practice in simple, eloquent language. Topics include zazen and Zen koans, how to appreciate your life as the life of the Buddha, and the essential matter of life and death.
Appreciate Your Life conveys Maezumi Roshi's unique spirit and teaching style, as well as his timeless insights into the practice of…
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June 11, 2002
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On Consolation
Michael Ignatieff
Who's Afraid of Gender?
Judith Butler
Unearthing
Kyo Maclear
Into the Uncut Grass
Trevor Noah
Like Love: Essays and Conversations
Maggie Nelson
Humanly Possible
Sarah Bakewell
Reading Genesis
Marilynne Robinson
Falling Back in Love with Being Human
Kai Cheng Thom
Quantum Physics Made Me Do It
Jeremie Harris
The Urge
Carl Erik Fisher
Over the Boards
Hayley Wickenheiser
On Freedom
Maggie Nelson
Joy
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Welcome Home
Najwa Zebian
Radical Acts of Love
Janie Brown
Hope
Pope Francis with Carlo Musso; translated by Richard Dixon
Reading Genesis
Marilynne Robinson
Sacred Nature
Karen Armstrong
Kiss the Red Stairs
Marsha Lederman
I Felt the End Before It Came
Daniel Allen Cox
Halal Sex
Sheima Benembarek; Foreword by Mona Eltahawy
Who By Fire
Matti Friedman
Don't Call It a Cult
Sarah Berman
The Lost Art of Scripture
Karen Armstrong
Talking to Strangers
Marianne Boucher
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories
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God Is in the Crowd
Tal Keinan
Bibi
Anshel Pfeffer
The Book of Joy
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams