Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Name: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
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ISBN: 9780834800793

ISBN-10: 0834800799

ISBN-13: 9780834800793

Edition: 2006

Authors: Shunryu Suzuki, Trudy Dixon

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Zen mind is one of those enigmatic phrases used by Zen teachers to throw you back upon yourself, to make you go behind the words themselves and begin wondering. "I know what my own mind is," you tell yourself, "but what is Zen mind?" And then: "But do I really know what my own mind is?" Is it what I am doing now? Is it what I am thinking now?" And if you should then try to sit physically still for a while to see if you can locate it-then you have begun the practice of Zen, then you have begun to realize the unrestricted mind. The innocence of this first inquiry-just asking what you are-is beginner's mind. The mind of the beginner is needed throughout Zen practice. It is the open mind, the…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/1/1973
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 132
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Preface



Introduction



Prologue : beginner's mind


Posture


Breathing


Control


Mind waves


Mind weeds


The marrow of zen


No dualism


Bowing


Nothing special


Single-minded way


Repetition


Zen and excitement


Right effort


No trace


God giving


Mistakes in practice


Limiting your activity


Study yourself


To polish a tile


Constancy


Communication


Negative and positive


Nirvana, the waterfall


Traditional zen spirit


Transiency


The quality of being


Naturalness


Emptiness


Readiness, mindfulness


Believing in nothing


Attachment, non-attachment


Calmness


Experience, not philosophy


Original Buddhism


Beyond consciousness


Buddha's enlightenment