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A respected Zen master in Japan and founder of the San Francisco Zen Center, Shunryu Suzuki has blazed a path in American Buddhism like few others. He is the master who climbs down from the pages of the koan books...(more) and answers your questions face to face. If not face to face, you can at least find the answers as recorded in Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, a transcription of juicy excerpts from his lectures. From diverse topics such as transience of the world, sudden enlightenment, and the nuts and bolts of meditation, Suzuki always returns to the idea of beginner's mind, a recognition that our original nature is our true nature. With beginner's mind, we dedicate ourselves to sincere practice, without the thought of gaining anything special. Day to day life becomes our Zen training, and we discover that "to study Buddhism is to study ourselves." And to know our true selves is to be enlightened. --Brian Bruya(less)
The teachings within this book are amazing and unique, in my eyes. It was a joy to read this book! In this book, you will not find some kind of set philosophy, and you will not understand the book very well if you try to read it with a conventionally intellectual mind. A lot of things that he says here do not make sense in the conventional way. Yet, whilst I read it, many of my constricting concepts were healthily challenged. Many times whilst reading this book I burst into laughter, because he shatters things, not with some kind of big hammer, but with a gentle, mysterious touch. He speaks with the voice of the Buddha.
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The teachings within this book are amazing and unique, in my eyes. It was a joy to read this book!
In this book, you will not find some kind of set philosophy, and you will not understand the book very well if you try to read it with a conventionally intellectual mind. A lot of things that he says here do not make sense in the conventional way. Yet, whilst I read it, many of my constricting concepts were healthily challenged. Many times whilst reading this book I burst into laughter, because he shatters things, not with some kind of big hammer, but with a gentle, mysterious touch.
He speaks with the voice of the Buddha.