Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Name: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
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ISBN: 9781590308493

ISBN-10: 1590308492

ISBN-13: 9781590308493

Edition: 2011

Authors: David Chadwick, Shunryu Suzuki

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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.

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/28/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

David Chadwick began practicing with Shunryu Suzuki in 1966 at the age of twenty-one & was ordained by him in 1971. His acclaimed biography of Suzuki, "Crooked Cucumber" (Broadway Books), was a "San Francisco Chronicle" bestseller. He lives with his wife & son in Sonoma County, California.



Preface



Introduction



Prologue: Beginner's Mind



Right Practice


Posture


Breathing


Control


Mind Waves


Mind Weeds


The Marrow of Zen


No Dualism


Bowing


Nothing Special



Right Attitude


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



Right Understanding


Traditional Zen Spirit


Transiency


The Quality of Being


Naturalness


Emptiness


Readiness, Mindfulness


Believing in Nothing


Attachment, Nonattachment


Calmness


Experience, Not Philosophy


Original Buddhism


Beyond Consciousness


Buddha's Enlightenment


Epilogue: Zen Mind


Afterword