Kodo Sawaki was Gudo Nishijima’s main teacher. THE ZEN TEACHINGS OF HOMELESS KODO by Kodo Sawaki and Kosho Uchiyama with Shohaku Okumura. This is one of the best Zen books there is and also one of the easiest ones to read! Arthur Braverman wrote an engaging biography of Sawaki and paired it with some of Sawaki’s best teachings. Kodo Sawaki was one of my teacher Nishijima Roshi’s teachers. Also recommended by the same author, Zen Confidential.ĭISCOVERING THE TRUE SELF by Kodo Sawaki. Harrowing stuff but also funny and entertaining. He also deals frankly and honestly with the sex scandal that raged around the head teacher of his monastery. In this book he gets into the gritty details of contemporary Western Zen monastic life. Baldy Zen Center where Leonard Cohen was also a monk. This is one of the most real books about Zen practice ever written. SINGLE WHITE MONK by Shozan Jack Haubner. Also recommended by the same author Nothing Special But I remember thinking it was one of the clearest Zen books I’d ever read. I haven’t read this book in at least twenty years, so my memory of it may not be completely reliable. Also recommended by the same author Realizing Genjo KoanĮVERYDAY ZEN by Charlotte Joko Beck. So his books better represent what he is actually trying to say. Unlike Suzuki or Katagiri, Okumura actually writes his own stuff rather than having his students turn transcribed talks into books. Okumura’s work is a bit more scholarly and slightly more technical than Suzuki’s or Katagiri’s, but it’s also similar in its warmth and directness. A great book about the various vows we make in Zen as well as some of the ceremonial stuff we do. Also recommended by the same author Returning to Silence, You Have to Say Something He just delivers straight talk about Zen practice and life. It’s quite similar to Suzuki’s books, meaning it’s not very technical.
Like Suzuki’s books, this was created from transcripts of talks the late Katagiri Roshi gave at Minneapolis Zen Center. This is an amazing book.ĮACH MOMENT IS THE UNIVERSE by Dainin Katagiri. It’s great to finally have some of Kobun’s lectures collected in written form. But I feel like much of the way I understand Zen comes from the way Kobun taught it to Tim. Kobun Chino Otogawa was my first Zen teacher’s teacher. Also recommended by the same author Not Always So, Branching Streams Flow in Darkness, Zen is Right HereĮMBRACING MIND: THE ZEN TALKS OF KOBUN CHINO OTOGAWA edited by Judy Cosgrove and Shinbo Joseph Hall. I’ve seen the original transcripts and these versions are much more readable. This book created from transcripts of talks Suzuki gave in a garage in Palo Alto in the Sixties. You don’t need a degree in Asian studies or philosophy to follow along. The chapters are short and straightforward. ZEN MIND BEGINNER’S MIND by Shunryu Suzuki.
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These include his short pamphlet about the Buddhist Precepts, a pamphlet called Three Philosophies One Reality, which lays out his favorite philosophical theory in great detail, Understanding the Shobogenzo, which is exactly what it sounds like, Japanese Buddhism and the Meiji Restoration, which is far more interesting than the title suggests, Zazen: A Better Way of Experiencing Pain, a collection of lectures on the phenomenon of pain, Buddhism and the Autonomic Nervous System, another of his favorite theories, 30 Questions and Answers About Buddhism, which is very, very, very good, How to Practice Zazen, a nice short introduction, and some other collected lectures.
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But several of Nishijima Roshi’s shorter works in English are available in PDF form from the Dogen Sangha website. SHORT WORKS BY GUDO NISHIJIMA This isn’t really a specific book. It’s a great little introduction to Nishijima’s unique style. Nishijima oversaw the project and approved of the results. An American student of his revised the transcripts in much the same way that the transcripts of Suzuki’s talks were revised for Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind. This is a collection of talks given by my teacher Gudo Nishijima a few years before I encountered him. TO MEET THE REAL DRAGON by Gudo Wafu Nishijima. I’ll probably add to this list, so check back some time. I’m also not listing some great non-Zen books such as Commentaries on Living by J. But I didn’t want to list anything I have not personally read. There are a number of books I haven’t read that I’m pretty sure are great because of what people tell me about them or what I know about their authors – Opening the Hand of Thought by Kosho Uchiyama, for example or Seung Sahn’s Only Don’t Know. This is just a short and incomplete list of books on Zen that I know for myself do not suck. The title of this page is not meant to imply that I think every book about Zen other than those listed on this page sucks.
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