YOU’VE GOT TO PICK UP EVERY STITCH - MUST BE THE SEASON OF THE WITCH. To be independent in this true sense, we have to forget everything which we have in our mind and discover something quite new and different moment after moment. Before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you. So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others, and you will be helped by others. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. When you understand one thing, you understand everything.
"Each of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way. Whether you meditate or not, Suzuki provides useful and illuminating truths for anyone interested in becoming more mindful. Though we all choose different paths according to our culture and temperament, the ultimate desire is the same: for the soul or "big I" to freely express itself, released from delusion. Suzuki's talks on zazen are spare and direct, demystifying Buddhism as a religion or philosophy and continually bringing the focus back to the simple and perfect practice of sitting-cleaning out your mind through meditation.
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Though we all choose different paths according to our culture and temperament, the ultimate desire is the same: for the soul or "big I" to free This book was recommended to me by various persons in different phases of my life, but I clearly wasn't ready to read it till now. This book was recommended to me by various persons in different phases of my life, but I clearly wasn't ready to read it till now. It’s a book to come back to time and time again as an inspiration to practice, and it is now available to a new generation of seekers in this fortieth anniversary edition, with a new afterword by Shunryu Suzuki’s biographer, David Chadwick. Suzuki Roshi presents the basics-from the details of posture and breathing in zazen to the perception of nonduality-in a way that is not only remarkably clear, but that also resonates with the joy of insight from the first to the last page. In the forty years since its original publication, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind has become one of the great modern Zen classics, much beloved, much reread, and much recommended as the best first book to read on Zen. In a single stroke, the simple sentence cuts through the pervasive tendency students have of getting so close to Zen as to completely miss what it’s all about. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. In a single stroke, the simple sentence cuts through the pervasive tendency students have of getting so close to Zen as to compl “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books.
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