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Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.


Biography

Tai Sheridan, Ph.D., is a poet and Zen priest with forty-three years of training in the Shunryu Suzuki lineage. His Buddha in Blue Jeans series offers a contemporary approach to Buddhist philosophy and awakening. He transforms ancient Buddhist and Zen texts into accessible and inspirational verses. His books have downloaded more than 170,000 editions.

Where to find Tai Sheridan, Ph.D. online

Website: http://www.taisheridan.com
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Books

A One Hour Short & Sweet Zen Retreat    by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Price: Free! 2130 words. Published on January 21, 2013. Nonfiction.
A One Hour Short & Sweet Zen Retreat encourages you to enjoy quiet, gather your wits about you, delight in nature, nourish yourself, focus your attention, love the world you inhabit, clarify your spiritual intentions, and deepen your connection with the whole of you. It is a simple practice that requires no special belief, training, or particular religious affiliation.
The Buddha in Blue Jeans Book Collection    by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Price: $5.99 USD. 5740 words. Published on November 19, 2012. Nonfiction.
A Collection of three of Zen priest and poet Tai Sheridan's #1 selling contemplation books: Buddha in Blue Jeans; Secrets of True Happiness; and Relax...You're Going to Die. The Buddha in Blue Jeans series explores sitting quietly with awareness, discovering the source of happiness within yourself, and making peace with living and dying.
Zen Prayers For Repairing Your Life    by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Price: Free! 5540 words. Published on July 11, 2012. Nonfiction.
Tai Sheridan's 'Zen Prayers' addresses what is unsettled within you and cultivates integrity and virtue. Zen prayer includes intimacy with the ground of Being, making yourself whole through honest self-reflection, clarifying your deepest spiritual intentions, wishing for the welfare of the world, and affirming the essential goodness of people and life.
Relax, You're Going to Die    by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Price: Free! 2390 words. Published on January 26, 2012. Nonfiction.
A contemporary and contemplative spiritual exploration of death, by best selling author, poet, and Zen priest Tai Sheridan, Ph.D. Beneath the surface, many anxieties, worries, and fears are associated with death. 'Relax, You Are Going To Die' is an invitation to examine your relationship with death and your ability to live with grace and dynamic vitality.
Secrets of True Happiness    by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Price: Free! 2030 words. Published on December 18, 2011. Nonfiction.
Poet-Philosopher and Zen Priest Tai Sheridan's 'Secrets of True Happiness' is a short, simple, and straight forward guide to becoming Truly Happy by living wisely. When you are truly happy you can be at ease in the world as a Buddha in Blue Jeans: a person of presence, openness, love, and benefit.
Patanjali: Yoga Sutras in Lingo - The Liberation of Spirit in Modern Metaphors    by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Price: $2.99 USD. 3390 words. Published on November 17, 2011. Nonfiction.
Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras teach restraint, wise action, and morality as a path to “The Supreme Lord”. Written between 100 BCE and 500 BE, this ancient Hindu text espouses the eight limbs of yoga for realizing the divine. Sanskrit translations tend to be literal and perplexing. Poet and Zen Priest Tai Sheridan's book gives the reader an immediate intimacy between Patanjali and their experience.
Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha    by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Price: Free! 2170 words. Published on October 26, 2011. Nonfiction.
Poet-Philosopher and Zen Priest Tai Sheridan's 'Buddha in Blue Jeans' is an extremely short, simple, and straight forward universal guide to the practice of sitting quietly and being yourself, which is the same as being Buddha. Sitting quietly can teach many ways to accept life, meet pain, age gracefully, and die without regret. The book encourages sitting quietly every day.
The Buddhacarita - A Modern Sequel: The Poetic Saga of Buddha's Life from Birth to Enlightenment    by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Price: Free! 13070 words. Published on October 7, 2011. Nonfiction.
The Buddhacarita, Asvaghosa's second century sanskrit poem, is the oldest existing story of Buddha's life. The saga begins with Buddha's magical birth and ends with his enlightenment. The ancient myth presents Buddha's relentless inquiry into the nature of reality and artfully weaves together an archetypal hero's journey, Buddhist philosophy, phantasmagorical occurrences, and historical facts.
Buddha's Golden Light: Six Classic Buddhist Teachings in Modern Verse    by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Price: $7.99 USD. 14430 words. Published on May 16, 2011. Nonfiction.
Buddha's Golden Light is a modern re-visioning of classic Buddhist and Zen texts by best selling author and Zen priest Tai Sheridan. Esoteric essays, wisdom teachings, and non-dual philosophy are transformed into accessible, inspiring, and beautiful verse. The six books in this collection illuminate the big body, big mind, and big heart of Buddhism.
The Bare Bones Dhammapada: Big Mind Big Love    by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Price: Free! 4280 words. Published on May 3, 2011. Nonfiction.
The well loved Dhammapada is one of the oldest Buddhist texts on walking the path of enlightenment, love, integrity, and kindness. It contains four hundred twenty-three aphorisms attributed to Buddha. Poet-Philosopher and Zen Priest Tai Sheridan transforms the original using minimalistic images and modern meanings that cut to the chase of Buddha's wisdom as universal truths for a modern audience.
The Zen Wheel of Life Mantra: A Song of Luminous Wisdom and Love    by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Price: Free! 2250 words. Published on March 9, 2011. Nonfiction.
Poet-Philosopher and Zen Priest Tai Sheridan 's Wheel of Life Mantra is a poetic expression of the Bhavacakra, an ancient mandala that presents the most significant wisdom teachings of Buddhism. It is used to contemplate the causes and conditions of suffering, and as a guide to non-dual wisdom, loving kindness, compassion, and equanimity.
Celestial Music: Sutras of Emptiness    by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Price: Free! 3090 words. Published on February 25, 2011. Nonfiction.
Poet-Philosopher and Zen priest Tai Sheridan presents modern interpretations of the Lotus, Diamond, Heart Wisdom, and Loving Kindness Sutras in accessible and inspirational verses. The Buddhist sutras express a path of enlightened living based on curiosity, good will, wisdom, and compassion. They journey through the depths of human experience: living and dying, love and loss, anguish and peace.
The Light of the Ancient Buddhas: Ballads of Emptiness and Awakening    by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Price: Free! 4450 words. Published on February 23, 2011. Nonfiction.
Keizan's thirteenth century "Denkoroku", The Transmission of the Light, is a sophisticated Zen fairytale about enlightenment and the empty ground of Being. Keizan uses archetypal myths, legends, and dreams to describe the luminous and awakened Zen mind. Poet-Philosopher Zen Priest Tai Sheridan transforms eighteen of the stories into lyrical ballads that focus on the light of the Universal Self.
Warm Zen Practice: A poetic version of Dogen's Bendowa    by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Price: Free! 1750 words. Published on February 23, 2011. Nonfiction.
Poet-Philosopher and Zen Priest Tai Sheridan's Warm Zen is an easy to read poetic interpretation of Dogen's complex philosophical essay 'Bendowa'. Dogen's writing is based on the Buddhist philosophy and experience of 'no-self' and the unconditioned reality of existence-being, also called the 'dharmakaya', the mystical and transcendent body of light.
Snow Falling in Moonlight: Odes in Praise of Dogen's Shobogenzo    by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Price: Free! 2090 words. Published on February 22, 2011. Nonfiction.
Dogen (1200-1253) is the father of Soto Zen. Poet-Philosopher and Zen Priest Tai Sheridan has transformed twelve of his spiritual essays from the Shobogenzo (The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye), into poems about non-dual wisdom, luminous mind, loving kindness, and Zen practice.
Rice Eyes: Enlightenment in Dogen's Kitchen    by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.
Price: Free! 2200 words. Published on February 22, 2011. Nonfiction.
A poetic presentation of Dogen's essay Tenzo Kyokun, Instructions to the Cook, by Poet-Philosopher and Zen Priest Tai Sheridan. 'Rice Eyes' is a metaphor for the non-dual world, the essential Buddhist experience of oneness. Dogen uses the role of Tenzo, or head cook, to demonstrate how to live, work, and experience a spiritual life that brings benefit to everyone.

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