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audios
- Angel City Zen Center – Podcasts
An ongoing series of recorded talks on varying Buddhist topics, published by Angel City Zen Center, plunge in, find out!
- The goal of goallessness – explanations by Domyo Burke/Bright Way Zen
To put into words what is beyond words, Domyo accepted the challenge. Listen and judge, if it worked out.
blogs
- Hardcore Zen – Blog
Brad Warners Blog posts
- Issa Haikus
Kobayashi Issa was one of Japan’s most prolific poets. He left in his journals over twenty thousand one-breath poems—then called haikai but today known as haiku. This website presents 10,000 of Issa’s haiku in a searchable archive. Enjoy…
books
- Bodhidharmas Zen teachings
Buddhisms great reformers voice, heard through the centuries…
- Discovering the True Self – Kodo Sawaki's Art of Zen Meditation
“You can’t see your true Self. [But] you can become it. Becoming your true Self is zazen.”
- Don't be a jerk!
The most essential ethical guideline of Buddhist practice, deduced from Dogens Shobogenzo, put in graphic language by Brad Warner.
- Hardcore Zen – German version
An invitation to question about everything, from Common sense up to Enlightenment, Brad Warner guides us to complete spiritual Independence, exemplified with brilliant Zen teachings and examples from his own biography.
- It came from beyond Zen!
More enlightening interpretation of Dogens teachings done masterly by Brad Warner.
- Polishing a tile
Natural and authentic approach to zazen from Issho Fujita an experienced Zen-teacher.
- Sex, Sin, and Zen: A Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between – German version
Brad Warners open minded book on Sex, sin and Zen, useful before and after the first divorce/broken-heart-depression/love affair.
- Shobogenzo – Volume 1
First volume of the Shobogenzo translation done bei Nishijima Roshi, Brad Warners Zen teacher, and Chodo Cross.
- Sit down and shut up!
Commenting profoundly and with loads of humour, Brad Warner opens the treasury of the true Dharma eye, Dogens Shobogenzo for us. Encouraging to do what Buddha did, sit down and shut up!
- The Heart Sutra
Incredibly dense and rich, yet strictly practice-oriented, Red Pine delivers THE essential book on the Heart Sutra. Highly recommended by Brad Warner!
- To meet the real dragon
Nishijima Roshis view of Zazen as a way to balance the human mind and 21st centuries societies…
- Wholehearted Way – A Translation of Eihei Dogen's Bendowa, With Commentary by Kosho Uchiyama Roshi
Transcending any particular school of Buddhism or religious belief, Dogen’s profound and poetic writings are respected as a pinnacle of world spiritual literature.
- Zen mind Beginners mind
THE classic book to enter the world of non-thinking.
- Zen mind Beginners mind – German version
THE classic book to enter the world of non-thinking, in German.
networks
- Dogen Zazen Vienna at Austrias Buddhist Unions webpage
A nonsectarian network of practicing Buddhists and meditation groups, hosted by the Austrian Buddhist Union; DZV is listed there as well.
sanghas
- Angel City Zen Center
Brad Warners Sangha in Los Angeles
- Dogen Sangha London
A very friendly group with wonderful conditions for practice. Brad visits the place when he’s in London.
- Dogen Sangha Tokyo
The Sangha of the late Nishijima Roshi, where Brad Warner studied Zen Buddhism and was ordained as a monk.
- Zendo Vienna 5th district
A community of Zen practictioners, established 40 years ago
videos
- Dogen Sangha
Nishijima Roshi’s video teachings
- Hardcore Zen
Brad Warners generous video feed with short talks on many important subjects.
- Starting a Zazen group
Brads experience with starting a meditation group
- The notes of the disciples of Bodhidharma – presented by Hyon Gak Sunim
A series of talks by Hyon Gak Sunim, held in Korea, commenting upon the Zen teachings of Bodhidharma. See also the link in the books section!
- What is Zen?
Hyon Gak Sunims approach to the Great Question. Korean Zen, taught in Regensburg/Germany.