This page contains some wonderful Buddhist teachings related to Zen. Feel free to download this and read them on your iPad, iPhone, computer etc…
If you have any book or writing you would like to share on here, please contact the Sangha!
Sutras
A wonderful piece of writing from Mahayana Buddhism.
A seminal text in Asian Zen learning.
A Sutra where the Buddha tries to point out the Buddha Nature to Ananda and how people arrive at that nature.
A very important Zen Sutra.
One of the best Sutra in Zen.
Sutra on the Eight Realization of Great Beings
Beautifully translated by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Zen Books
A very good book by a great Zen Master who had arrived on the shore of USA.
A wonderful collection of Zen short stories. If you read it and feel lost, don’t worry, you will get the joke when you find your Buddha Nature through your practice!
A Simple Explanation of the Zen Journey
In a few pages.
A beautiful Zen-like book written about a Master meditator and teacher of the Theravada Forest Tradition.
Sangha Dharma Talks
Several of our practicing members have graciously allowed us to post lessons they have delivered at past sittings.
Advanced Practitioner’s Course
Once in a while, we offer an Advance Practitioner’s Course for those members who have a regular Zen practice and have mastered the foundations of Zen. This course is by invitation of the teacher to those who are ready and is usually comprised of those who have already taken the Three Gems and Five Precepts (although sometimes exceptions are made). Here is a glimpse of the last class taught by Lotus:
A Summary of the Jhanas and Path of Practice
An introduction to the summary of meditation practice method and map by Lotus Vu.
Kundalini – Psychosis or Trancendence? by Lee Sannella
Developing Stillness and Wisdom Through Meditative Practice
Traditional meditation roadmap of gradual practice.
Lotus’ Dharma Talk Notes on Koan Study
Elements of a solitary retreat
Nibbana As Living Experience by Lily de Silva
Many Varieties of Emptiness – From Early Buddhism to Yogacara
An investigation into the phenomenology of emptiness. Notes from Lotus’ Dharma Talk on the Subject.