Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line of Shunryu Suzuki's classic. In a single stroke, the simple sentence cuts through the pervasive tendency students have of getting so close to Zen as to completely miss what it's all about. An instant teaching on the first page. And that's just the beginning.

In the thirty years since its original publication, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind has become one of the great modern Zen classics, much beloved, much re-read, and much recommended as the best first book to read on Zen. Suzuki Roshi presents the basics-from the details of posture and breathing in zazen to the perception of nonduality-in a way that is not only remarkably clear, but that also resonates with the joy of insight from the first to the last page. It's a book to come back to time and time again as an inspiration to practice.

Shunryu Suzuki (1904-1971) was a founding father of Zen in America and one of the most prominent spiritual teachers of the twentieth century. From 1959 until his death, he taught in the United States as a Japanese priest of the Soto lineage. He founded the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and the San Francisco Zen Center. He is the author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, and Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Lectures on the Sandokai, as well as Crooked Cucumber, a biography by David Chadwick about him.

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ISBN 13	9781590302675
ISBN 10	1590302672
Title	Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Author	Shunryu Suzuki
Series	Shambhala Library
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Shambhala Publications Inc
Year published	2006-10-10
Number of pages	192
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