Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
by SUZUKI, SHUNRYUDIXON, TRUDYFormat: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2011-06-28
Publisher(s): Shambhala
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Summary
In the forty years since its original publication, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mindhas become one of the great modern Zen classics, much beloved, much reread, 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 and it is now available to a new generation of seekers in this fortieth anniversary edition, with a new afterword from David Chadwick.
Author Biography
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.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| Prologue: Beginner's Mind | p. 1 |
| Right Practice | |
| Posture | p. 7 |
| Breathing | p. 11 |
| Control | p. 14 |
| Mind Waves | p. 17 |
| Mind Weeds | p. 20 |
| The Marrow of Zen | p. 21 |
| No Dualism | p. 25 |
| Bowing | p. 28 |
| Nothing Special | p. 32 |
| Right Attitude | |
| Single-Minded Way | p. 37 |
| Repetition | p. 39 |
| Zen and Excitement | p. 42 |
| Right Effort | p. 44 |
| No Trace | p. 47 |
| God Giving | p. 51 |
| Mistakes in Practice | p. 57 |
| Limiting Your Activity | p. 61 |
| Study Yourself | p. 63 |
| To Polish a Tile | p. 67 |
| Constancy | p. 71 |
| Communication | p. 74 |
| Negative and Positive | p. 78 |
| Nirvana, the Waterfall | p. 81 |
| Right Understanding | |
| Traditional Zen Spirit | p. 87 |
| Transiency | p. 91 |
| The Quality of Being | p. 93 |
| Naturalness | p. 96 |
| Emptiness | p. 100 |
| Readiness, Mindfulness | p. 103 |
| Believing in Nothing | p. 106 |
| Attachment, Nonattachment | p. 109 |
| Calmness | p. 112 |
| Experience, Not Philosophy | p. 114 |
| Original Buddhism | p. 117 |
| Beyond Consciousness | p. 120 |
| Buddha's Enlightenment | p. 124 |
| Epilogue: Zen Mind | p. 127 |
| Afterword | p. 135 |
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