Try to locate a copy of a book entitled " The Three Pillars of Zen" by the late Philip Kapleau Roshi. It contains great teachings....they have a wooden device called a seizan bench...mine I hade from a piece of 2" x 6", and followed the simple instructions....it is set at 15 degrees, which puts...
The Buddha said many times that his role was to show us the way out of suffering, ‘One thing and one thing only do I teach, suffering and how to end suffering’ (Majjhima Nikaya 1. 140). Once a monk approached him and insisted he answer questions about the origins and extent of the universe and...