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In the forty years since its original publication, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind has 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 nondualityin 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.

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[This] is a different book every time I read it. Behind the simplicity, it is dense with Zen wisdom that flashes like lightning as you read and reread. --Jon Lebkowsky, Millennium Whole Earth Catalog One of the best, and most succinct, introductions to Zen practice. --Library Journal This is one of the top five Buddhist books, ever. --Elephant One of the best, and most succinct, introductions to Zen practice. -- Library Journal [This] is a different book every time I read it. Behind the simplicity, it is dense with Zen wisdom that flashes like lightning as you read and reread. --Jon Lebkowskyl, Millennium Whole Earth Catalog This is one of the top five Buddhist books, ever. -- Elephant

[This] is a different book every time I read it. Behind the simplicity, it is dense with Zen wisdom that flashes like lightning as you read and reread. --Jon Lebkowsky, Millennium Whole Earth Catalog One of the best, and most succinct, introductions to Zen practice. -- Library Journal This is one of the top five Buddhist books, ever. -- Elephant

One of the best, and most succinct, introductions to Zen practice. -- Library Journal <br><br> [This] is a different book every time I read it. Behind the simplicity, it is dense with Zen wisdom that flashes like lightning as you read and reread. --Jon Lebkowskyl, Millennium Whole Earth Catalog <br><br> This is one of the top five Buddhist books, ever. -- Elephant

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Shunryu Suzuki (1904-1971) was one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the twentieth century and is truly a founding father of Zen in America. A Japanese priest of the Soto lineage, he taught in the United States from 1959 until his death. He was the founder of the San Francisco Zen Center and the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. He is the author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind and Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai, and he is the subject of the biography Crooked Cucumber by David Chadwick.

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