9781590308493-1590308492-Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781590308493
ISBN-10: 1590308492
Edition: 9/19/11
Author: Shunryu Suzuki, Trudy Dixon
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Shambhala
Format: Paperback 176 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781590308493
ISBN-10: 1590308492
Edition: 9/19/11
Author: Shunryu Suzuki, Trudy Dixon
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Shambhala
Format: Paperback 176 pages

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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice (ISBN-13: 9781590308493 and ISBN-10: 1590308492), written by authors Shunryu Suzuki, Trudy Dixon, was published by Shambhala in 2011. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Movements (Philosophy) books. You can easily purchase or rent Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Movements books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.54.

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"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few."

So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. In a single stroke, the simple sentence cuts through the pervasive tendency students have of getting so close to Zen as to completely miss what it's all about. An instant teaching on the first page. And that's just the beginning.

In the forty years since its original publication, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind has become one of the great modern spiritual 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.

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