KOAN, DOGEN READINGS, AND OTHER VOLUMES ARE SUGGESTED PERSONALLY BY TEACHERS 

AS PART OF INDIVIDUAL TRAINING.  LISTED BELOW ARE SOME EXCELLENT BOOKS OFTEN RECOMMENDED.

 

 

THE BASICS OF ZEN PRACTICE

ZEN MIND BEGINNERS MIND by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

ON ZEN PRACTICE by T. Maezumi Roshi & Bernie Glassman Roshi

BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO ZEN BUDDHISM by Jean Smith

BRINGING THE SACRED TO LIFE by Daido Loori Roshi

THE ART OF JUST SITTING by Daido Loori Roshi

 

READINGS ON PRECEPTS AND PARAMITAS

BEING UPRIGHT by Reb Anderson Roshi

MIND OF CLOVER by Robert Aitkin Roshi

WAKING UP TO WHAT YOU DO by Diane Eshin Rizzetto

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BOOKS ON BUDDHIST SUTRAS 

INFINITE CIRCLE by Bernie Glassman Roshi
LIVING BY VOW by Shohaku Okamura Roshi                                                                                 
THE DHAMMAPADA  by Eknath Easwaran
                                          

GENERAL READINGS ON BUDDHISM AND ZEN PRACTICE 

THE NINE-HEADED DRAGON RIVER by Peter Mathiessen Roshi

APPRECIATE YOUR LIFE by Taizan Maezumi Roshi

BUDDHISM WITHOUT BELIEFS by Stephen Batchelor
CULTIVATING THE EMPTY FIELD by Taigen Dan Leighton Roshi
OPENING THE HAND OF THOUGHT by Uchiyama Roshi
RETURNING TO SILENCE by Dainin Katagiri Roshi
EVERYDAY ZEN by Charlotte Joko Beck

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