Episode 104: The Best Zen Books The Zen of Everything

Zen is the transmission outside of words. But there sure are a lot of books about Zen. We look at some of the best books on Zen. Soto Zen, that is.



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Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance
Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice
Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment
Shunryu Suzuki: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
Philip Kapleau Roshi: The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment
Shohaku Okumura: Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo
Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries
Shohaku Okumura: The Mountains and Waters Sutra: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's "Sansuikyo"
Steven Heine: Readings of Dōgen's "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye"
Steven Heine: Dogen: Japan's Original Zen Teacher
Taigen Dan Leighton: Visions of Awakening Space and Time: Dōgen and the Lotus Sutra
Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom: Three Fascicles from Shobogenzo with Commentary
Kazuaki Tanahashi: Enlightenment Unfolds: the essential teachings of Dogen
Kazuaki Tanahashi: Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen
Will Johnson: The Posture of Meditation
Barbara Hoetsu O'Brien: The Circle of the Way - A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World
Jonathan Landaw & Stephan Bodian: Buddhism For Dummies
Diana St. Ruth: Simple Guide to Zen Buddhism
Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan, translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi
Kazuaki Tanahashi: The Complete Cold Mountain: Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan
Red Pine: The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain
Norman Fischer & Susan Moon: What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind
Stephen Batchelor: The Art of Solitude
Brian Daizen Victoria: Zen at War
Suggested BOOKS & MEDIA on Zen Practice (Treeleaf)


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