Dropping Ashes on the Buddha -- The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn

Compiled and edited by Stephen Mitchell

[Book]

Consisting of dialogues, stories, formal Zen interviews, Dharma speeches, and letters using the Zen Master's actual words in spontaneous, living interaction with his students, this book is a fresh presentation of the Zen teaching method of instant dialogue between Master and student which, through the use of astonishment and paradox, leads to an understanding of ultimate reality.

Ven. Seung Sahn (1927-2004) is the first Korean Zen Master to live and teach in the West. He attained enlightenment at the age of twenty-two and founded the Kwan Um School of Zen which has spread to North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Mindful Eating

by Jan Chozen Bays, MD

Mindful eating is an approach that involves bringing one's full attention to the process of eating-to all the tastes, smells, thoughts, and feelings that arise during a meal. It is the antidote to mind and body conditioning and eating habits of addiction, obssession or unawareness that take us away from fully appreciating the basic activities of eating. It is a skill that anyone can develop and it brings immediate rewards.

To master the skill, merely reading does not work. One needs to experience. For that, the reader is provided with an audio CD which comes with recordings of guided exercises for mindful eating.

The guide in the audio CD and writer of the book is a pediatrician and a meditation teacher who has taught mindful eating in workshops and retreats for more than twenty years.

Available from Zen Buddhist Culture Services Centre Tel: 63924256