What Is Zen
What Is Zen Links
- ZEN Visually rich, funny, insightful basic introduction to Zen. Produced by Kodai-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan. WARNING: This site is very sophisticated, and assumes you'll be able to figure out how to navigate through it. It doesn't give navigation instructions, and the click-through path is non-obvious. Requires Shockwave and a 4.0+ browser.
- What is Zen? A Brief Explanation by Eido Tai Shimano Roshi Abbot of The Zen Studies Society
- Lecture On Zen by Alan Watts
- Eastern Religions: Zen Page Information on Zen from a religious, historical, and philosophical perspective.
- Zen Frequently Asked Questions An introduction to Zen
- What is Zen? by Mel Ash What is Zen, and what isn't. How Zen can help in daily life.
- Introduction to Zen A personal page giving an introduction to Zen, and its relationship to the concepts of religion and psychology.
- What is Zen ? Introduction to Zen by the Association Zen Internationale.
- Zen Guide An attractively presented online introduction to Zen. Resource intensive; may crash your browser.
- Frequently Asked Questions from alt.zen
- What is Zen? "To define Zen is difficult. To define is to limit to make a neat conceptual package that abstracts from the whole and gives only part of the picture. This would not capture Zen, for it is rooted in our deepest life flow and deals with the facts of unfettered experience. The non-conceptual nature of Zen is apparent in the catch phrases that became popular in Sung China. Zen trainees took their cues from such expressions as: 1) 'No dependence on words and letters'; 2) 'A special transmission outside the classified teachings'; 3) 'Direct pointing to the mind of man'; and 4) 'Seeing the mind is becoming the Buddha.'"
- Questions and Answers about Zen What is Zen? Important characteristics of Zen? Who is a true teacher? Importance of Let-Go? Zen and Judo? Who is a Hero?
- Zen -- Excerpt from The Tao of Physics "Zen is a unique blend of the philosophies and idiosyncrasies of three different cultures. It is a way of life which is typically Japanese, and yet it reflects the mysticism of India, the Taoists' love of naturalness and spontaneity and the thorough pragmatism of the Confucian mind."
- Zen Is Understanding Yourself talk by Seung Sahn Soen-Sa
- The Kyosaku Explained The Kyosaku is a blow on the shoulder with the light stick carried by a Zen priest during meditation.
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