school of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith; China and Japan
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a Buddhist doctrine that enlightenment can be attained through direct intuitive insight
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Kottke, who often appeared on Keillor's radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion," is more upbeat than Keillor, kind of like an aging kid brother who veered off temporarily into Zen Buddhism somewhere back down the line.
There is a course on Astral Sex and Zen Tea Bags, and another on how to make a drum and use it to get in touch with yourself and your tribe or company.
Though 'devised' by the company (the usually accomplished Boilerhouse), the text is attributed to Barry Graham, an angry young Scottish writer, ex-boxer and Zen Buddhist.
Organizers of Earth Day 1990 have contacted Stern about a possible role for Zen in that observance.
Bernard Glassman, a Brooklyn-born son of Jewish immigrants, turned to Zen Buddhism in the late 1960s and founded a Zen community in New York state a decade later.
Bernard Glassman, a Brooklyn-born son of Jewish immigrants, turned to Zen Buddhism in the late 1960s and founded a Zen community in New York state a decade later.
The mythic symbolism that informs his work is still the stuff of active belief and daily practice, of Zen Buddhism and animistic Shinto.
I had not at that time visited Japan, otherwise I would have seen Loch Lomond as a Zen garden, an oasis of serenity, carefully raked and dotted with coloured stones. This year I returned to Loch Lomond.
"At least what I do," Seka concluded, "is on the screen." EDITOR'S NOTE _ Janwillem van de Wetering wrote his first book at age 40 after years of hopping around the globe and pursuing an interest in Zen Buddhism.
The only catch is that the guest must try to transcend reason through Zen _and accept the discipline aimed at enlightenment.
Mr. Gray has been called a cross between Lily Tomlin and Mark Twain, but he is really something all his own: A 45-year-old with shaggy gray hair and a bald spot, a hip downtown character with WASP gentility and Zen commentary.
He was not your run-of-the-mine broker; he was into open floral shirts, beads and Zen.
Steven Fingerhood, an investment banker, fantasizes about becoming a Zen master in Hawaii to get to "the real meaning of life."
Throngs of eager customers scan paperbacks on Zen poetry and feminist theory.
"What happened at that meeting has had a profound impact on us and our business," says Bernard Glassman, a Zen abbott and the owner of Greyston.
He is what I think a Zen master ought to be like.
His Zen approach to juggling makes the business of tossing objects in the air and catching them look like a whole new ball game.
Stern thought up Zen in 1970, but stashed a one-page synopsis in a suitcase.
"The comic book-buying public responded to Zen because he represents a true alien hero," Stern said.
"It doesn't need to be called Christian, Jewish or Zen financial planning.
In particular it requires a commitment and decision that may be as extreme as anything of Zen calligraphy and the formal conventions of the Far Eastern landscape traditions.
Zen's brief: Find a substitute culprit.
Glassman, who became a Zen monk in 1970 and quit his aerospace engineer job a few years later, oversees agency operations from the bakery, a former lasagne factory in a rundown section of downtown Yonkers.
Though no student of Zen Buddhism (my wife, Kate, is), I do engage in the Zennish practice of 'following my breathing'.