Japanese Masterpieces for the Shakuhachi

Japanese Masterpieces for the Shakuhachi
This is an old Lyrichord album of Zen honkyoku, religious pieces for the traditional bamboo flute in the style of the old itinerant Zen monks and, later, of the samurai. (The breathing involved in sustaining the sound of the shakuhachi is also useful in martial arts, and some warriors took up the instrument following their martial training. In fact, a sturdy shakuhachi makes a good bludgeon, and it was sometimes used as such - which is astonishing when you consider how expensive these instruments are now!)Many of these pieces have been recorded on newer, digital or at least higher-quality analog recordings and the audiophile might prefer to seek those out. A virtue of the quality performances on this disc is that the musicians are an older generation of shakuhachi masters, and they give you a good feel for an older style. (This is nothing against contemporary players, including westerners who have mastered the instrument and incorporated it into modern music

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Bhutan: The Last Shangri-La

Bhutan: The Last Shangri-La

There is a place on earth where time stands still-where nature and religion have combined to turn a tiny Buddhist kingdom into the world's last Shangri-La. Locked between Tibet and India, Bhutan is the jewel of the Himalayas. To the north of the kingdom, towering virgin peaks rise to 25,000 feet. Beneath steep glacial walls, alpine highlands fall to misty forests. Mountain streams cut through gorges on their way down to warmer valleys and wide marshes in the heart of the kingdom. One distinct landscape drops to the next before finally descending to the jungle and grasslands of the southern plains. For the people who have adapted to this domain of extremes, Bhutan is a Living Eden where respect for life, in all its many incarnations, endures like the land itself.

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The End of Your World - Adyashanti

The End of Your World - Adyashanti
For those serious about enlightenment, author and teacher Adyashanti has some advice: better know what you're getting into. Because with spiritual awakening, you find that the strongly held beliefs and perceptions you've taken to be "you" and "your world" vanish into the unmanifest nature of all that is. The End of Your World presents a landmark six-CD course on the reality of enlightenment and the total "re-wiring" of your being that accompanies it--what Adyashanti calls "our journey into the infinite, our true nature as pure consciousness itself."

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Finding the Center Within: The Healing Way of Mindfulness

Finding the Center Within: The Healing Way of Mindfulness - Thomas Bien

"Finding the Center Within is a practical manual on the practice of mindfulness, which can help many people to embody their Buddha nature and become radiant and peaceful beings. It provides easy steps for practicing mindfulness in day-to-day living."
–Thich Nhat Hanh, author of Peace Is Every Step, The Miracle of Mindfulness, and Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames

All of us want to live a calmer, more peaceful existence. Thomas and Beverly Bien teach that if we find the center within through ongoing mindfulness, we will have the capacity to live deeply and fully–with boundless peace and happiness–in any external circumstance. We can learn to be calm in the midst of the storm.

Finding the Center Within offers a step-by-step program for breaking down the barriers that prevent us from actualizing our wise inner self. The Biens combine Eastern spiritual wisdom with the pragmatic wisdom of Western psychology, teaching us how to remove the walls that conceal who and what we really are and face our lives with greater honesty. They provide the tools needed to:

• Find a path to the center through mindfulness
• Bring meditation into everyday life
• Work with and transform negative emotions
• Cultivate healthy, healing relationships
• Use dreams to achieve maximum wholeness and self-acceptance

You’ll discover how to find greater peace, joy, and love in your life and deepen your capacity for psychological and spiritual well-being. Let Finding the Center Within inspire and guide you as you make the journey to awareness and open yourself to a world of happiness.
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How to Cook Your Life (2007)

How to Cook Your Life (2007)
This documentary profiles Zen Master Edward Espe Brown and shows the art of Zen and cooking. Espe Brown first became interested in baking as an 11-year kid when he realized the startling difference between mass-produced supermarket bread and the fresh homemade stuff. When he asked his mother to teach him how to bake, however, she said "No, yeast makes me nervous."

Brown became the head cook at the Tassajara Mountain Centre in California when he was in his early 20s, and has been practicing the art of Zen Buddhism and cooking for more than 40 years. As a chef, he is typically short-tempered and exacting, but as a Buddhist master he is exactly the opposite. Director Dörrie (Men, Naked) sets her camera on Espe Brown as he travels from the Scheibbs Buddhist Centre in Austria to Tassajara, offering cooking seminars based upon the principles established 800 years ago by Master Eihei Dogen Zenji, the founder of the Japanese Soto-Zen school. Master Dogen wrote about the necessity of treating food as if it was as valuable as your eyesight. From washing rice, to preparing vegetables, every action could be a path to Zen. Or as the master said, "When you're washing the rice, wash the rice." A charming taskmaster who regularly punctures his holiness with moments of self-deprecation and humour, Espe Brown's observations on modern culture, cooking and human foibles are often as acerbic and hilarious as they are profound.

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Life of Shakyamuni Buddha, The Smaller Amida Sutra, The Larger Amida Sutra

Thanks to josho_adrian for this link. It has hard English subs and Chinese spoken.
Life of Shakyamuni Buddha as explained in Jodo Shinshu Buddhist tradition.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/963773

Also on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=274JSyPEl5M

NAKED IN ASHES - Soundtrack

NAKED IN ASHES - Soundtrack
The soundtrack for Naked in Ashes accompanies the unique story of the search for enlightenment by various yogis of India as told by film director Paula Fouce. In keeping with the spirit of the quest, composer's Tony Humecke and Stephen Day have created music that takes you on a journey that simultaneously excites and soothes, marches and soars, and inspires and awakens. Indian classical, western classical, world percussion, and more combine to create a sound that calls to the spirit.

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