The Practice of Perfection: The Paramitas from a Zen Buddhist Perspective

By Aitken Robert, Robert Aitken

Robert Aitken, author of Encouraging Words and Taking the Path of Zen, is America's most senior Zen Roshi. In this new book he presents the Ten Paramitas, or Transcendental Perfections - namely, gi...

Encouraging Words

By Robert Aitken

Nominated for the Tricycle Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Buddhism in America—a collection of short talks and essays from a renowned meditation teacher. "The inspiration that guided mo...

The River of Heaven

By Robert Aitken

“In this, his final work, American senior Zen Roshi Robert Aitken lovingly ties together two threads, Zen practice and haiku.” —Spirituality & Health Known to many as the study...

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By Robert Aitken

Miniatures of a Zen Master

By Robert Aitken

For more than four decades, Robert Aitken Roshi has taught thousands of people the Buddhist practice of Zen meditation, and has led hundreds through their practice of the study of traditional koans...

The River of Heaven

By Robert Aitken

“In this, his final work, American senior Zen Roshi Robert Aitken lovingly ties together two threads, Zen practice and haiku.” —Spirituality & Health Known to many as the study...

Miniatures of a Zen Master

By Robert Aitken

For more than four decades, Robert Aitken Roshi has taught thousands of people the Buddhist practice of Zen meditation, and has led hundreds through their practice of the study of traditional koans...

The Morning Star

By Robert Aitken

Having practiced zazen for more than half a century, Robert Aitken sits today as the senior American Roshi, a teacher of broad reputation and consequence, who numbers as his own teachers and associ...

Original Dwelling Place

By Robert Aitken

In this collection of twenty-three essays, Robert Aitken retraces the origins of American Zen Buddhism and provides readings of influential texts.Reflecting on death, on marriage, and on Zen practi...

The Golden Horseshoe

By Robert Aitken