The Zen of Everything

Episode 104: The Best Zen Books

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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.

  • Treeleaf
  • 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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