Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (50th Anniversary Edition)

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (50th Anniversary Edition)
Shunryu Suzuki
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Paperback
h210 x 133mm - 176pg
20 Jun 2020 US
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9781611808414
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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.
"One of the best and most succinct introductions to Zen practice. "--Library Journal "I sincerely respect and applaud Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, who transmitted Dogen Zenji' s vow to the U. S. A. "--Shundo Aoyama Roshi, former Shike`Kai Kaichoh, "Teacher of the House of Soto Zen," and author of Zen Seeds
Shunryu Suzuki (1904-1971) was one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the twentieth century and is truly a founding father of Zen in America. A Japanese priest of the Soto lineage, he taught in the United States from 1959 until his death. He was the founder of the San Francisco Zen Center and the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. He is the author of Zen Mind, Beginner' s Mind and Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness- Zen Talks on the Sandokai, and he is the subject of the biography Crooked Cucumber by David Chadwick.
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ISBN-13: 9781611808414
Published: 20 Jun 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Shambhala Publications Inc
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
Format: Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 133mm
Pages: 176

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