Author: Shunryu Suzuki
Translator: Chang-young Jeong
Publisher: Mulbyeongjari
232 pages | 210*148mm
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About This Book
Zen mind is one of those enigmatic phrases used by Zen teachers to throw
you back upon yourself, to make you go behind the words themselves and
begin wondering. "I know what my own mind is," you tell yourself, "but
what is Zen mind?" And then: "But do I really know what my own mind is?"
Is it what I am doing now? Is it what I am thinking now?" And if you
should then try to sit physically still for a while to see if you can
locate it?then you have begun the practice of Zen, then you have begun
to realize the unrestricted mind.
The innocence of this first inquiry -- just asking what you are -- is
beginner's mind. The mind of the beginner is needed throughout Zen
practice. It is the open mind, the attitude that includes both doubt and
possibility, the ability to see things always as fresh and new. It is
needed in all aspects of life. Beginner's mind is the practice of Zen
mind.
This book originated from a series of talks given by Zen Master Shunryu
Suzuki to a small group in Los Altos, California. He joined their
meditation periods once a week and afterwards answered their questions
and tried to encourage them in their practice of Zen and help them solve
the problems of life. His approach is informal, and he draws his
examples from ordinary events and common sense. Zen is now and here, he
is saying; it can be as meaningful for the West as for the East. But his
fundamental teaching and practice are drawn from all the centuries of
Zen Buddhism and especially from Dogen, one of the most important and
creative of all Zen Masters.
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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