In addition, they have been converted to Zen Buddhism, with its glorification of all that is `` natural '' and mysteriously alive, the sense that everything in the world is flowing.

And Zen Buddhism, though it is extremely difficult to understand how these internal contradictions are reconciled, helps them in their struggle to achieve personal salvation through sexual release.

Promoters of Zen to the West record its ancestry, and recognize that Zen grew out of a combination of Taoism and Indian Mahayana Buddhism.

Proponents of Zen to the West emphasize disproportionately the amount of Mahayana Buddhism in Zen, probably in order to dignify the indisputably magical Taoist ideas with more respectable Buddhist metaphysic.

Actually, Zen owes more to Chinese Quietism than it does to Mahayana Buddhism.

* Bodhidharma ( c. 440 – 528 CE ), founder of the Zen school of Buddhism

By the time of the Tang Dynasty five-hundred years after Buddhisms arrival into China, it had transformed into a thoroughly Chinese religious philosophy dominated by the school of Zen Buddhism.

* Buddhism & Capital Punishment from The Engaged Zen Society

All Japanese Kamakura sects of Buddhism ( Zen, Nichiren, Jodo ) have relaxed Mahayana vinaya, and as a consequence, vegetarianism is rare.

In traditions such as classical Hinduism, Zen Buddhism or Islamic Sufism, a key to enlightenment is " transcending " this sort of dualistic thinking, without merely substituting dualism with monism or pluralism.

* Daigo ( Zen ), a great enlightenment in Zen Buddhism

In Japan these later Middle Age centuries saw a return to the traditional Shinto faith and the continuing popularity of Zen Buddhism.

In this period kendo developed under the strong influence of Zen Buddhism.

Concepts such as, or " empty mind ", are borrowed from Zen Buddhism and are considered essential for the attainment of high-level kendo.

Shih-t ' ou Hsi-ch ' ien's poem " The Harmony of Difference and Sameness " Sandokai is an important early expression of Zen Buddhism and is chanted in Sōtō temples to this day.

Morita Masatake ( 1874-1938 ), also read as Morita Shoma ( 1874-1938 ( 森田 正馬 ), was a contemporary of Sigmund Freud and the founder of Morita Therapy, a branch of clinical psychology strongly influenced by Zen Buddhism.

After having persuaded himself that Amidism was not the true Buddhist doctrine, he passed to the study of Zen Buddhism, which had become popular in Kamakura and Kyōto.

During his lifetime, Nichiren stridently maintained that the contemporary teachings of Buddhism taught by other sects, ( particularly Nembutsu, Zen, Shingon, and Ritsu ) were mistaken in their interpretations of the correct path to enlightenment, and therefore refuted them publicly and vociferously.

Only being outnumbered by ' Zen ' 1. 400 Nichiren temples had been founded all over Kyoto and although the various sects of Nichiren Buddhism were administratively independent they met in a council to resolve common problems.

There are stories in Buddhism where the power of resurrection was allegedly demonstrated in Chan or Zen tradition.

Chinese alchemy ( especially neidan ), Chinese astrology, Zen Buddhism, several martial arts, Traditional Chinese medicine, feng shui, and many styles of qigong have been intertwined with Taoism throughout history.

Zen Buddhism: A History ( India and China ) ( World Wisdom, Inc, 2005 ).

Now and Zen, Manic Nirvana, and Fate of Nations ( featuring Moya Brennan of Clannad ).

Tozan, one of the founders of Sōtō Zen in China, had a teaching known as the Five Ranks of the Real and the Ideal, which points out the necessity of not getting caught in the duality between Absolute and Relative / Samsara and Nirvana, and describes the stages of further transcendence into fully realizing the Absolute in all activities.

* Nirvana in a Nutshell: 157 Zen Meditations ( ISBN 1-59003-017-6 )

* Nirvana: The Zen of the Jazz Trumpet ( 2006 )

* Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, 1974, paperpack, or hardback first edition ISBN 0-688-00230-7

* Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis ( 1960 ) ISBN 978-0-285-64747-3

* The Unfettered Mind-Writings of the Zen Master to the Sword master by Takuan Sōhō ( Musashi's mentor ) ( ISBN 0-87011-851-X )

( 2000 ) Sōtō Zen: An Introduction to the Thought of the Serene Reflection Meditation School of Buddhism, Shasta Abbey Press, ISBN 0-930066-09-X

* Williams, D. R. ( 2004 ) The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Sōtō Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan ( Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series ), Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-11928-7

In his autobiography, Sadaharu Oh: A Zen Way Of Baseball ( ISBN 978-0812911091 ), Oh said he and Nagashima were not close, rarely spending time together off the field.

* The book Three Pillars of Zen by Philip Kapleau ( ISBN 0-385-26093-8 ) contains several first-person accounts of Rinzai sesshin experiences.

* Chan Park ; Tango Zen: Walking Dance Meditation ( English ), Tango Zen House 2005, ISBN 0-9759630-0-7

* One Robe, One Bowl ; The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan ( ISBN 0834801264 ), 1977, translated and introduced by John Stevens.

* Three Zen Masters: Ikkyū, Hakuin, Ryōkan ( Kodansha Biographies ) ( ISBN 4770016514 ), 1993, by John Stevens.

* The Zen Fool: Ryōkan ( ISBN 0804821283 ), 2000, translated, with an introduction, by Misao Kodama and Hikosaku Yanagashima.

* Great Fool: Zen Master Ryōkan: Poems, Letters, and Other Writings ( ISBN 0-8248-1777-X ), 1996, by Ryuichi Abe ( with Peter Haskel ).

* John Stevens, Mountain Tasting: Zen Haiku by Santoka Taneda, Weatherhill © 1980 ISBN 0-8348-0151-5 372 haiku emphasizes the Zen aspect of Santoka's life.

1: Zen and Violence ( collects The Question # 1 – 6, 176 pages, softcover, October 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1579-3 )

Greenfield is best known for his 2006 book Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing ( ISBN 0-321-38401-6 ), which has been called " groundbreaking " by Bruce Sterling: " One puts it down with a strange conviction that web-designers have transcended geekdom and achieved Zen soulfulness.

* " Living Zen " by Robert Linssen ( Grove Press New York, 1958 ) ISBN 0-8021-3136-0

Zen in the Art of Archery ISBN 0-679-72297-1.

* Awakening to Zen ( New York: Scribner, 1997 ) ISBN 0-684-82973-8

* Straight to the Heart of Zen ( Boston: Shambhala, 2001 ) ISBN 1-57062-593-X

* The Three Pillars of Zen ( New York: Anchor Books, 2000 ) ISBN 0-385-26093-8

* The Zen of Living and Dying: A Practical and Spiritual Guide ( Boston: Shambhala, 1998 ) ISBN 1-57062-198-5

* Zen: Dawn in the West ( Garden City, N. Y .: Anchor Press, 1979 ) ISBN 0-385-14273-0