Books

Open Way Zen Brisbane has a number of new books for sale at discounted prices.Click here for details on how to order. Some of these books are hard to find because they are out of print.

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Details of books for sale:

Title	Falling Leaves, A Shooting Sprout
Author	Hogen Yamahata
Publishing details	Lisbon, Portugal : Assirio & Alvim, November 2002, paperback, 344 pages
ISBN	972-37-0762-4
Price	A$35.00 + A$6.80 post & packaging within Australia       £23.00 full delivered price within the United Kingdom, via 1st class mail
Stock identification number	B13
Abstract	Through written teisho, poetry, calligraphy, questions and answers, Hogen san invites us into the koan of NOW (THIS), both in sitting meditation and in our daily lives. This limited printing is in English and Portugese, with translated Japanese calligraphy and beautiful black and white photography.

Title	On the Open Way : Zen Here-Now
Author	Hogen Yamahata
Publishing details	Byron Bay, NSW  :  Open Way Zen Inc., c1998. 3rd edition, paperback 236 pages
ISBN	0-95855150-2
Price	A$20.00 + A$6.80 post & packaging within Australia   £15.00 full delivered price within the United Kingdom, via 1st class mail (rrp A$30.25)
Stock identification number	B1
Abstract	On the Open Way is a privately published collection of Zen Master Hogen’s teachings reflecting a lifetime of zen practice.  These teachings take the form of dharma talks given around the world, biographical notes, monographs, poetry and calligraphy.

Title	The Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu
Author	James Green
Publishing details	Shambala Publications Inc., Boston 1998
ISBN	1-57062-870-x
Price	A$15.00 + A$6.80 post & packaging within Australia (rrp A$22.95)
Stock identification number	B15
Abstract	Joshu Jushin (778—897) was one of the great Chan (Zen) masters of Ancient China. Many of the best-known koans originated with Joshu (including the famous “Does a dog have buddha-nature?’). His importance as a teacher can be measured by the prevalence of his sayings in the great koan anthologies of Zen literature: of the forty-eight koans collected in the Gateless Gate, five are Joshu’s, and among the one hundred koans of the Blue Cliff Record, twelve are his. Although Joshu’s life itself is an embodiment of the Zen ideal, it was his particular ability to express the true nature of enlightened mind in a pithy and succinct fashion that made his teaching so influential. His sayings and dialogues have been preserved in the Zen literature as timeless and potent expressions of the experience of enlightenment. Included here is the first complete translation of Joshu’s sayings, dialogues, and poems, as well as records of his pilgrimages and a short biography. This book is part of the Sacred Literature Series of the International Sacred Literature Trust. JAMES GREEN is a Zen practitioner and scholar who spent many years as a monk. In the 1970s he was asked by the Japanese Zen master Keido Fukushima Roshi to translate this text and did so under the master’s guidance while in residence as a monk at Hofuku-ji monastery Okayama, Japan.

Title	Gentling the Bull : The Ten Bull Pictures : A Spiritual Journey
Author	The Venerable Myokyo-ni (Irmgard Schloegl)
Publishing details	Boston, Rutland, Vermont, Tokyo  :  Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc., 1996 paperback
ISBN	0-8048-3088-6
Price	A$15.00 + A$6.80 post & packaging within Australia (rrp A$25.15)
Stock identification number	B2
Abstract	The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures, also known as the Ten Bull Pictures, are believed to have been drawn by Kakuan, a twelfth-century Chinese Zen master, but became widely used as a means of Zen study in fifteenth-century Japan.  They are used in formal Zen training to this day to show the stages of one’s realization of enlightenment.  Each of the ten pictures is presented here with a preface and general foreword to the series by Chi-Yuan, a monk in the direct line of Kakuan.  Myokyo-ni provides a lucid introduction that sets the pictures in their historical context and shows their relevance to modern Zen training.  In her own comments on each picture, she discusses how they are representative of our own search for “oneness”- spiritual fulfillment.

Title	The World : A Gateway : Commentaries on the Mumonkan
Author	Albert Low
Publishing details	Boston, Rutland, Vermont, Tokyo  :  Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc., 1995 paperback
ISBN	0-8048-3046-0
Price	A$17.00 + A$6.80 post & packaging within Australia   (rrp A$27.95)
Stock identification number	B6
Abstract	The Mumonkan, or “Gateless Barrier,” is the most widely used collection of koans in Zen practice.  For centuries, monks, nuns, and lay people have struggled with these koans as a means of attaining enlightenment. The book is structured in the traditional style, with translations of each koan followed by the author’s comments.  The translations are drawn from the author’s own interpretation and from his work with Roshi Philip Kapleau.  Excerpts from the Diamond Sutra and a translation of the Prajnaparamita Hridaya (“Heart of Perfect Wisdom”sutra) are included, as well as the author’s story of his own path toward awakening.

Title	The Story of Chinese Zen
Author	Nan Hua-Chin ; translated by Thomas Cleary
Publishing details	Boston, Rutland, Vermont, Tokyo  :  Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc., 1995 paperback
ISBN	0-8048-3050-9
Price	A$17.00 + A$6.80 post & packaging within Australia   (rrp 27.95)
Stock identification number	B10
Abstract	This book begins with the premise that the climate during Shakyamuni’s founding of Buddhism in India ultimately influenced the differences behind Hinayana and Mahayana thought, practice, and methods of seeking realization.  From there – beginning with its transmissions to China – Master Nan outlines the Zen School, exploring influences on the development of Zen before the early T’ang dynasty, different means of studying Zen and pursuing “the heart and goal of Zen”.  He explores the relationship between Zen and neo-Confucianism and the inseparability of religion and Zen from Chinese literature and philosophy, especially Taoism.  Although written in an historical format, this book is filled with teachings relevant to questions that arise in contemporary zen practice.

Title	Teaching of the Great Mountain
Author	Taizan Maezumi
Publishing details	Tuttle Publishing, Boston, Tuttle Library of Enlightenment, 2001, paperback 143 pages
ISBN	0-8048-3273-0
Price	A$17.00 + A$6.80 post & packaging within Australia   (rrp A$23.00)
Stock identification number	B14
Abstract	Taizan (“Great Mountain”) Maezumi Roshi addresses the essence of Zen – the vital questions of how we can perceive true nature in every moment. Given in the style of teisho, or “presentations of Dharma”, his intimate poetic teachings cover a broad range of topics, including koans, God, sutras, ceremony, and siting meditation. Maezumi Roshi’s direct and evocative teachings will inspire beginners and adepts alike.