Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Cover of the first edition
AuthorShunryu Suzuki
Trudy Dixon and Richard Baker (editors)
Cover artistที่
LanguageEnglish
SubjectZen Buddhism
Published1970 (Weatherhill, New York; Tokyo)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages132
ISBN0-8348-0079-9
OCLC20674253
294.3/4435 22
LC ClassBQ9288 .S994 2006

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind is a book of teachings by Shunryu Suzuki, a compilation of talks given at his satellite Zen center in Los Altos, California. Published in 1970 by Weatherhill, the book contains transcriptions of Suzuki's talks recorded by his student Marian Derby.[1] Trudy Dixon and Richard Baker (Baker is Suzuki's successor) edited the talks by selecting the most relevant ones and organizing them into chapters.[1] Bodhin Kjolhede, abbot of the Rochester Zen Center, writes that, together with Philip Kapleau's The Three Pillars of Zen (1965), it is one of the two most influential books on Zen in the west.[2]

  1. ^ a b Shunryu Suzuki (2011). Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Shambhala Publications. ISBN 978-1-59030-849-3.
  2. ^ Kjolhede, Bodhin; Kapleau, Philip (2000). The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment. Anchor Books. p. 382. ISBN 0-385-26093-8.