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Quotations
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Zen Quotes
315 words, approx. 1 pages
The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves. The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other. •Ma-Tsu You cannot describe...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Musō Sōseki Summary
713 words, approx. 2 pages
MUSŌ SŌSEKI (1275–1351), a monk of the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism in medieval Japan. Born into an aristocratic family, he entered the religious life at an early age, rose to become head of some of Japan's most influential...
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Chan and Zen Summary
20,801 words, approx. 69 pages
Chan and Zen Zen is the latest Japanese development in a number of similar Buddhist traditions known as "Chan" in China, "Seon" in Korea, and "Thiên" in Vietnam, all supposedly having origins in India....
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Zen Summary
8,167 words, approx. 27 pages
ZEN. [This article treats the development of the Zen sect in Japan. The historical antecedents of this school, the practices and institutions of Chinese Chan Buddhism, are discussed in Chan.] The Zen Buddhist sect in Japan consists of three main...
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Zen Information
8,540 words, approx. 29 pages
Zen (禪 or 禅) is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism notable for its emphasis on practice and experiential wisdom—particularly as realized in the form of meditation known as zazen—in the attainment of awakening. As such, it de-emphasizes both...


News and Journals
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The Independent - London
That was Zen. This is now
06/20/1995: 1,643 words, approx. 6 pages
Michael Dibdin is in self-imposed exile. Again. The crime writer best known for his creation Aurelio Zen, the fatalistic Italian policeman for whom "lugubrious" is too cheerful a description, has spent large chunks of his life as an expat. But in 1984, aged 37,...
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The Washington Post
The Zen of Raking
11/06/2001: 452 words, approx. 2 pages
Stunted imaginations view it as a chore. But engage the senses and the repetitive motion of raking can be a mood lifter -- a mind-and- body exercise that involves more than the slow, laborious movement of decaying plant matter from Spot A to Spot...
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Vibe.com
Cover Story: The Zen of Eminem
1/28/2005: 2,959 words, approx. 10 pages
As Chris Rock had it, something sure has changed in America when the best golfer is black and the best rapper, white. Rock's choice of words is remarkable: not richest, not most famous, but best. Because there can be no doubt about it anymore, and...
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Cosmetic Surgery Times
The zen of spas: Do we need them?: The path to patient awareness may very well mean that the answer is a resounding "yes"
3/1/2007: 765 words, approx. 3 pages
In my practice, not a day goes by that I don't receive a magazine about the spa business, a flyer about a skin care meeting, and at least several advertisements on body and skin care products to improve appearance and aging of the skin....
 


Criticism and Essays
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 88%
Zen Buddhist Philosophy in Japanese Death Poems
1,024 words, approx. 3 pages
The tradition of writing jisei, or "death poetry," when on the verge of death is a perplexing aspect of the Japanese people's calm acceptance of death as a part of life. A thorough understanding of Japanese death poems provides an explicitly accurate depiction of the Japanese attitude towards death and the Zen Buddhist philosophy that helped form this attitude. This analysis draws upon Yoel Hoffmann's book Japanese Death Poems.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Zen and the Beat Way
480 words, approx. 2 pages
Reviews the book Zen and the Beat Way, by Alan Watts. Questions if it is a serious examination of Zen, the Beat Way or anything in particular.


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