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Shunyru Suzuki’s book Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind and Chogyam Trungpa’s Meditation in Action have been leading people onto the path of meditation for forty years now. (For more on this, see Norman Fischer’s review of the special 40th Anniversary editions of both books, as published in our current, January 2011 magazine.) Here, Shambhala [...]
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For a beginner or a seasoned veteran of the zazen pillow it is appropriate to ask what is the real purpose of Zen. If I flip through my copy of Shunyru Suzuki’s book, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind (1996) he tells... Read Post

(Follow Ethan on Facebook and Twitter) A list of Steve Jobs' favorite books and most influential reads was just published on Huffington Post, and it includes Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche... Read Post

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunyru Suzuki and Meditaton in Action by Chogyam Trungpa are each now forty years old, and out in new commemorative editions. In the current issue of the Shambhala Sun, Norman Fischer reviews these, pla... Read Post