These questions are good but you must not become too intellectual about these things. It is better to just meditate and have no thought. Let the mind rest quietly in the self. Soon it will become natural and then there would be no need for questions. Do not imagine that this means being inactive.
Silence is the only real activity.
Kalpataru is a full service on-line bookstore with a Shopping Cart and other convenient ways to order books. Specific author headings and more information are found in the Catalogue . Zen is represented by Bankei and by Huang Po , as well as Bassui and Suzuki Shosan . The book edited by Ram Dass, Miracle of Love, stories of Neem Karoli Baba is included, for it's power and beauty. As well, there are videos of Nisargadatta Maharaj and Ramana Maharshi .