These hand-made zafus and zabutons are used by Missouri Zen Center members, and are occasionally offered through boutique stores. The construction is authentic, and is the same way zafus and zabutons are made in Japanese temples today. That means the zafu will wear and evolve to your body in exactly the same way, giving you the same experience unlike mass-produced zafus and zabutons. Because they are hand made, quantities are limited, and delivery date is determined by the backlog of orders we have.

Zafu (round sitting pillow) Price: $65.00

Zabuton (square padded mat) Price: $65.00

Traditional Japanese green tea imported from Shizuoka, Japan. Shizuoka is the “tea capital” of Japan, located on the Pacific coast and in the shadow of Mount Fuji.

100g bag, $10.00 each

This traditional incense, which we use here at the Missouri Zen Center during meditation practice, is imported from Japan. It is the same kind of incense used at Soto Zen Head Temple Eiheiji (named Reiryoukou) and procured from the same supplier to Eiheiji.

Price: $10.00/box

Soy Candle

Used during Meditation practice, these soy based candles in recycled containers burn more cleanly than traditional paraffin candles. It is an attractive and environmentally responsible addition to your meditation area.

Price: $4.00

Hand-rolled incense made by Sri Aurobindo Yoga Mandir. The purchase of this incense helps to support Sri Aurobindo Yoga Mandir, an orphanage and school for children in Kathmandu, Nepal. The incense is handmade from natural ingredients found locally and there are 12 sticks per package.

Price: $1.00

Missouri Zen Center T-shirts and Sweatshirts. Various sizes and colors available.
Printing on shirt includes some painted calligraphy inside a circle which says, "ichi-en-so", or unified perfect harmony phase/mode, written by Rosan Yoshida.
The quotation reads: “It is sameness for the sea not to refrain from accepting water and for this reason water smoothly gathers together to make the sea.” -Dogen

Prices:

Adult T-shirt sizes: $15.00
Child T-shirt size: $12.00
Sweatshirts: ???

This mug has the “Sameness” calligraphy printed on, along with a Dogen quotation and the Missouri Zen Center logo.
The quotation reads: “It is sameness for the sea not to refrain from accepting water and for this reason water smoothly gathers together to make the sea.” -Dogen
Coffee mug, black with white writing.

Price: $7.00

Kalen McAllister photographed Rosan and the Candy man, who performs yearly at the Japanese Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Missouri Zen Center garden photos by David Lienemann.

Price: $10/set of 3 or 4

Japanese calligraphy meaning “Achieving the Awakened Way with All” is written by Rosan Yoshida. card/envelope is parchment paper, blank inside.

Price: $1.00

These special editions of Dharma Life—Dharma Life Special Edition on Peace, Dharma & Art, and The Dharma of Simplicity—are available for free PDF download from our newsletters page. You may purchase the paper booklets at the Zen Center.

Edited by Kalen and Shoshin. Insights from Inside examines what prison is, what’s it like inside, and what Buddhist practice looks like inside prison. Many of the articles and artwork are by prison inmates. Paperback.

Price: $12.00

By Rosan Yoshida.

This includes the Shush?gi (Significance of Cultivation/Verification), compendium of Soto School, giving the gist of Dogen’s work, collection of passages from his major work, Sh?b?genz? (Storage of Right Dharma-eye), Goroku (Record of Words), collection of his lectures and D?ei (Poems in the Way), and a collection of all his poems, brilliant and beautiful.

Paperback

Price: $9.00

By Rosan Yoshida.
This is unique in presenting the new interpretation of paticca-samupp?da (Dependent Origination) with detailed analysis of original Pali Tripitaka, prominent Sanskrit works, etc. The book covers major Buddhist topics, such as Dharma, Karma, Nirvana, Buddhist Paths, with new interpretation of nirvana, Tathagata, Arhant, etc. Paperback.

Price: $20.00

Yoshida, Eilers, Ganio, translators.
This book tells about Kannon (Avalokita-svara, Observing-Sound Bodhisattva) who observes weeping and wailing sounds of the world, sees and serves those in distresses and disasters, commenting on the conversation between Dao-wu Xiu-yi and Yun-yan Wu-zhu.
Paper booklet. $3.00

Yoshida, Eilers, translators.
This tells the world in unsurpassed awakening and unconditioned peace, undeceivable and undeprivable, commenting on Xuan-sha Shi-bei’s words: “The entire world in ten directions is a ball of clear crystal.”
Paper booklet. $3.00

Yoshida, translator.
The essential tenet of Buddhism is given in well organized sequence and its essence is given in the plainest way for all sentient beings, solving the ultimate problem of life/death of all living beings in unsurpassed awakening and unconditioned peace.
Paper booklet. $2.00

Dainin Katagiri
Offers a basic understanding of Zen Buddhism. Special emphasis on discovering the experience of enlightenment in the midst of everyday life. (Note: Katigiri is “Jikai Dainin” in our lineage recitation.)
$9.00

Dainin Katagiri
"You are Buddha, so learn to behave as a Buddha. Go beyond your self-centered ideas, your likes and dislikes." So begins a section in the essay, "Bodhi Mind," by the influential American Zen master Katagiri. Though these instructions sound easy, these collected essays are not for the beginner. The anthology's no-nonsense style and approach hit the reader like a slap with a stick from a Zen meditation teacher correcting one's posture in Zen meditation. While erudite and informed, these essays lack any humor and warmth that might entice the novice to sample the delights of Zen even further. The lessons stare up at you like figures from a spreadsheet, demanding a reader's uncritical acceptance. The essays read like the thoughts of a Zen bureaucrat rather than a lover of this rich and profound path to self-knowledge. —From Publishers Weekly
(Note: Katigiri is “Jikai Dainin” in our lineage recitation.)
$9.00

Dainin Katagiri
“In this book, Katagiri Roshi presents Dogen Zenji’s teachings on ‘being-time’ and teaches how the blossom of our life force can flourish amidst the flow of change. I recommend this book to all Zen practitioners and to anyone who wishes to enrich and ripen their life.”—Shohaku Okumura Roshi, Director, Soto Zen Buddhism International Center
(Note: Katigiri is “Jikai Dainin” in our lineage recitation.)
$9.00