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Shunryu Suzuki Index

This started with the bibliography as presented in the book (or close to it--it's dated 11/4/1998.) I've moved the publications to the end. In addition to listing my major published sources (and my sources were overwhelmingly unpublished) I included books by writers in Suzuki's lineage and some important relevant books--some unpublished at the time of compiling the bibliography. I will expand the list, including other sources that mention Shunryu Suzuki, texts he lectured on, and background publications. Suggestions welcomed. I just put a bunch of work on this page today (11/25/99) and added lots of subtitles that weren't in the book's bibliography. And I can see some that should be added like Katagiri's books. It'll take time. A number of these books are out of print.--DC Still lots to do. - 4-07

Bibliography as it appeared in Crooked Cucumber

Books by Shunryu Suzuki, sort of - his words. Go to Suzuki book page.

Books by but also about, with Shunryu Suzuki

Articles pertaining to Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Center, etc.

Excerpts from a few books mentioning Suzuki.

Other books - by Zennies, friends, whatever

Go to New and newly mentioned books - 2002

DC Books

Books by Dainin Katagiri -  compilations of his lectures

Check out the Writing department of cuke-The-arts

Books By, About, or at least Mentioning Shunryu Suzuki

Anderson, Reb. Being Upright: Zen Meditation and the Bodhisattva Precepts. Rodmell Press, 2000.

Anderson, Reb. Warm Smiles from Cold Mountains: A Collection of Talks on Zen Meditation. Rodmell Press, 1999.
[From a close Suzuki disciple and former abbot of ZC. As with any book here, look at Amazon.com's reviews. They're really good.--DC]---- Click here for excerpt on SFZC web site.

Badiner, Allan Hunt  (Editor), Alex Grey (Editor). Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics - Huston Smith (Preface) [and I've got a chapter in there, that's why it's in this list - DC], Chronicle Books, 2002. The much longer unedited version of my contribution to this book, Psychoactivism.

Baker, Richard. Original Mind: The Practice of Zen in the West. Riverhead, 2003?. [From Suzuki's American Dharma heir. He's taking his time on this. I had access to the ms. It's mid 2004 now and maybe it will never come out. --DC]

Behr, Edward. Hirohito: Behind the Myth. Villard, 1989.

Brown, Edward Espe. Tomato Blessings and Radish Teachings: Recipes and Reflections. Riverhead Books, 1997. [Excellent Suzuki Roshi stories from this Suzuki disciple ordained with me.--DC] Read these stories here.

Other books by Ed Brown

Edward Brown link page

Chadwick, David. Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki. Broadway books, 1999. The biography of Shogaku Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, Soto Zen master, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, founded San Francisco Zen Center & Buddhist monastery Tassajara, Zen Mountain Center. [The book this web site was originally built around.] See Crooked Cucumber main page.

Click here for bigger picture.

Chadwick, David. Thank You and OK!: an American Zen Failure in Japan, Shambhala, May 2007.  [Some Suzuki Roshi stories, lots on Katagiri Roshi]

Main Thank You and OK page on this site
Shambhala link.
Originally a Penguin Arkana book published in 1994

See Zen Is Right Here by Shunryu Suzuki, edited by David Chadwick (formerly To Shine One Corner of the World: Moments with Shunryu Suzuki).

To Find the Girl from Perth - - a little project I've been doing in my spare time, mainly back in 2005 and 6. There are several parts and one is ready now. The rest soon but it's out of my hands so I can't say for sure. - dc, 11-28-08

DC Books

Doss, Margot Patterson. San Francisco at Your Feet. Grove Press, 1964. Revised updated editions available. [An old Suzuki friend and advisor who met him in '59.]

Fields, Rick. How the Swans Came to the Lake: a narrative history of Buddhism in America (third edition, revised and updated). Shambhala, 1992. [A great and significant book from a dear departed dharma brother who knew Suzuki and did a terrific job in describing him and his teaching. See a few Suzuki stories from Rick, Interview with Rick Fields, and Rick Fields] Shambhala link.

Fronsdal, Gil-editor. Remembering the Dragon: Recollections of Suzuki Roshi by his Students. Published in 2004 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth. Includes many photos. . $10 paper. order only from  SFZC Bookstore

Fujimoto, Rindo. The Way of Zazen. Cambridge Buddhist Asso. Inc., 1966. [This was the only book sold at the old Zen Center for a long time. Hard to get.--DC]  
Read the whole book here. 

The story of how this book came about will be put on the site very soon as will more material on Elsie Mitchell who edited this book.. - DC - 9/22/02. Go to Article on  Elsie Mitchell and a Visit to Massachusetts, a chapter cut from Crooked Cucumber. See Sun Buddhas, Moon Buddhas below and Elsie Mitchell main page.

Gaskin, Ina May. Spiritual Midwifery. The Book Publishing Co., 1990.

Gaskin, Stephen. Amazing Dope Tales. The Book Publishing Co., 1980. [These two Gaskin books I name for one story each and because the Gaskin relationship is part of the hidden background.--DC]

Gaskins on cuke - including more books

Hiestand, Barbara, editor. Chronicles of Haiku Zendo. Haiku Zendo Foundation, 1973. [A terrific little bit of history, full of Suzuki stories.] Read the whole book: Part One. Part Two

Kato, Kozo. Soufuku (Running and Resting). Tomokichisha, 1994. [Memoirs of one of Suzuki's best friends. Will put translation of chapter on Suzuki on the site.]

Kaye, Les. Zen at Work: a Zen Teacher's 30-Year Journey in Corporate America. Crown, 1996.
[Les has been a priest at the Los Altos Zendo since Suzuki ordained him in 1971 and for many years he combined his priest practice there with his job at IBM.]
Amazon link

4-13-11 - Les Kaye's got another book out

Kwong, Jakusho. No Beginning, No End: The Intimate Heart of Zen - Shambhala Publications link - Amazon Link

Breath Sweeps Mind [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition] - Amazon link

Only Don't Know - Shambhala Sun link - calligraphy book

Jakusho Kwong link page

Lee, Paul, Editor. Compiled by Tenryu Paul Rosenblum. Roundabout Zen: Recollections in Celebration of the 70th Birthday of Zentatsu Baker Roshi. Crestone Books, 2006.
See Roundabout Zen page for more info, table of contents, excerpts, and how to buy the book.

Leighton, Taigen Dan. Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern Expression . Revised Edition. Formerly published as Bodhisattva Archetypes:Classic Buddhist Guides to Awakening and Their Modern Expression.
(Wisdom Publications,2003)
 [Little mention of Suzuki, but a daring, original approach by a priest in his lineage who helped me out with Crooked Cucumber.--DC]----
Click here for excerpt on SFZC Website
Click here for excerpts on cuke.com 

Books by Taigen and others he recommends

Visions of Awakening Space and Time:
Dogen and the Lotus Sutra
Oxford University Press, 2007 - Description and comments

Taigen's Peace and Justice Page

Matthiessen, Peter. Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969 - 1982. Shambhala, 1986.
[Matthiessen's path includes a bit of Suzuki, more background accounts of Soen Nakagawa, Yasutani, and Eido Shimano Roshis.]

Mitchell, Elsie. The Lion Dog of Buddhist Asia. Charles E Tuttle Co., 1991. Read a review from a Lion Dog site.

Mitchell, Elsie. Sun Buddhas, Moon Buddhas: a Zen Quest. Weatherhill, 1973. [Some great stuff on Shunryu Suzuki's visit to  Cambridge.  Read the excerpt
See The Way of Zazen (above)
Go to Elsie Mitchell Main Page

Mitchell, Elsie and John. The Way of Eiheiji: Zen Buddhist Ceremony - A two record box set put out by Folkways Records in 1960. Now available From the Smithsonian Folkways in a 2-cassette set or a 2-CD set. See ordering information. Read the booklet that came with the record set.

Mountain, Marian. The Zen Environment: the Impact of Zen Meditation. William Morrow, 1982. [Marian ran the Los Altos Zendo where she recorded the Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind lectures. A free spirit. Suzuki and beyond.]

Mukpo, Diana. Dragon Thunder: My Life with Chogyam Trungpa. Shambhala, 2006. Shambhala link and Amazon link.





Needleman, Jacob. The New Religions. Doubleday, 1970. [Out of print, maybe the first book to mention Suzuki and Zen Center.]

Olson, Philip. The Discipline of Freedom: a Kantian View of the Role of Moral Precepts in Zen Practice. SUNY, 1993. [A Suzuki student brings his Eastern and Western studies together.]

Power, Brian. The Puppet Emperor. Universe Books, 1988.

Reischauer, Edwin O. Japan Past and Present (Third Edition). Knopf, 1964.

Richmond, Ivan. Silence and Noise: Growing Up Zen in America. Atria Books, 2003. See Amazon link.

1-14-12 - Events page from Lew Richmond's web site, mainly readings for his new book, Aging as a spiritual practice.

Richmond, Lew. Work as a Spiritual Practice: a Practical Buddhist Approach to Inner Growth and Satisfaction on the Job. Broadway Books, 1999. [A Suzuki disciple, ordained with me, gives practical, down to earth Buddhist advice.]

________. Healing Lazarus : A Buddhist's Journey from Near Death to New Life -- by Lewis Richmond, Pocket Books 2002. See my comments - DC.

_________.A Whole Life's Work: Living Passionately, Growing Spiritually. Atria Books, February 24, 2004. See Amazon.com.

_________.Zen Basics. Available only by mail order. See

Books by Lew Richmond    Music by Lew Richmond

Ross, Nancy Wilson. Buddhism: a Way of Life and Thought. Knopf, 1980.

Schneider, David. Street Zen: the Life and Work of Issan Dorsey. Marlow and Company, (2nd Edition, June 2000) originally Shambhala, 1993.  Here's the Amazon.com link.

Sher, Gail. The Moon of the Swaying Buds: A Spiritual Autobiography. Edgework Books, Feb., 2002. Amazon link  - It's a book of poetry which focuses on her experiences at Tassajara and with Shunryu Suzuki, ending with her leaving Zen Center. See Gail Sher's web site's books page. She's written a bunch of them.

Storlie, Erik. Nothing on My Mind: Berkeley, LSD, Two Zen Masters, and Life on the Dharma Trail. Shambhala, 1997. [A good picture of the sixties Zen Center, Suzuki, Katagiri, and students.] Eric Storlie link page

Storry, Richard. A History of Modern Japan. Penguin, 1960.

Suzuki, Mitsu, Kazuaki Tanahashi, Gregory A. Wood (translators). Temple Dusk: Zen Haiku. Parallax Press, 1992. [Shunryu Suzuki's wife's poetry]
Amazon link

Mitsu Suzuki Main Page

Books by and about Shunryu Suzuki
Go to Suzuki book page

Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice. Weatherhill, 1970. Now published by Shambhala Publications. Here's the Shambhala link to it.  [The famous first book of Suzuki's lectures. On the cover it says: Informal talks on Zen meditation and practice.] ---- Click here for excerpt on SFZC web site. Amazon link  |  Read the original Beginner's Mind lecture

 Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Is Right Here, Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Edited by David Chadwick
Paperback / Shambhala Publications / 160 pages, ISBN 978-1-59030-491-4 / October 2007 Shambhala Link - Not yet printed. Now accepting pre-orders! Expected publication date, October 2007. Originally published as To Shine One Corner of the World: Moments with Shunryu Suzuki - Amazon.com link

Suzuki, Shunryu. Branching Steams Flow in the Darkness: Lectures on the Sandokai. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999. [The second book of Suzuki's lectures.] For more info go to this link
Amazon link

Shunryu Suzuki, edited by Edward Espe Brown. Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen, Harper Collins 2002. This is the true sequel to Zen Mind Beginner's Mind.

Amazon link

Other books by Ed Brown

Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries by Eihei Dogen, Nishiari Bokusan, Shohaku Okamura and Shunryu Suzuki (Aug 1, 2011) Published by Counterpoint.

posted 4-25-11

Tipton, Steve. Getting Saved from the Sixties. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1982. [A Suzuki student sociologist takes a thorough and informative look at Suzuki students, EST, and a fundamentalist Christian Church.] Amazon link.

See more on Steve Tipton's books books here.

See Steve Tipton's Link Page

Trungpa, Chogyam. Born in Tibet (third edition). Shambhala, 1985. [Hard to get classic.] Click here for excerpt

Trungpa, Chogyam, The Teacup and the Skullcup: Chögyam Trungpa on Zen and Tantra, Vajradhatu Publications, 2007.

See letter from co-editor, David Schneider.

Tworkov, Helen. Zen in America: Five Teachers and the Search for American Buddhism. Kodansha, 1994. [In depth interviews with Richard Baker and Bill Kwong Roshis and other American Zen teachers.] 

Uchiyama, Kosho. The Zen Teaching of "Homeless" Kodo, Kyoto Soto Zen Center, 1990.

Ambivalent Zen : One Man's Adventures on the Dharma Path by Lawrence Shainberg

See excerpt about Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Victoria, Brian. Zen at War. Weatherhill, 1997.

[Read it and weep. An eye-opening expose of Zen gone crazy.]  Go to Victoria Page for more on this book.

Victoria, Brian. Zen War Stories, Routledge/Curzon,  February 1, 2003. Go to Victoria Page for more info and cover.

Wenger, Michael. Thirty-three Fingers: a Collection of Modern American Koans. Clear Glass, 1994. [Small, fun, refreshing--by a priest in Suzuki's lineage, dean of the studies center at SFZC.] ---- Click here for excerpt on SFZC web site.

Wenger, Michael & Erlich, Gretel (Editors) Wind Bell: Teachings from the San Francisco Zen Center - 1968-2001 (web link) North Atlantic Books, 2001. [That was an informative link on it, but here's the Amazon.com link. A great collection of various articles, including Suzuki lectures, from old Wind Bells.

Wind Bell (publication of the San Francisco Zen Center), 1961-. [Bi-annual  publication of the SFZC. To subscribe or for back issues, write Zen Center, 300 Page St., San Francisco CA 94102--$3 per issue; $6 a year domestic; $10 a year foreign]

Articles and Papers pertaining to Shunryu Suzuki, the Zen Center, Crooked Cucumber, or something relevant.
[I'll try to get these on the site.--DC - wrote that in 99. Now it's 2007. Maybe this year! Maybe even a more complete list!]

Barry, Ernie. "The Way of the Gateless Gate." Berkeley Barb, September 29, 1967. [An article about Tassajara on opening week.]

Jeschke, Matthew Paul. "The Interpretation of Zen in the West." Thesis, Division of Philosophy, Religion, and Psychology, Reed College, May 1995. 

Kawashiri, Rumi. "Sokoji and Zen Center." Unpublished paper, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, June 6, 1969. 

Kozuki, Shigeo. "Kokoro no Furusato" (Hometown of the Heart), Nikkei, Tokyo, 1994. [A eulogy to Shunryu Suzuki from one of his wartime students.]

Lahey, Denis Myo. "Climbing the Mountain Seat," a paper for the Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1972. [A description of Suzuki's final, emotional public appearance. Reprinted in the Wind Bell.]

Trungpa, Chogyam. "Suzuki-roshi: A recollection of Buddha, Dharma, Sangha." Garuda.. Tail of the Tiger and Karma Dzong Communities, Spring 1972.

Wise, David Thomas. "Dharma West: A Social-Psychological Inquiry into Zen in San Francisco." PhD Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, September 1971.

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Other Books by friends of cuke.com, Suzuki students, and/or folks we admire or stuff that was relevant or not:

Books by Bill Porter (Red Pine) - and links to interviews and articles.

Books by Dainin Katagiri -  compilations of his lectures

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10-04-10 - Check out these books:

Fil Lewitt's The Zen Follies, is available only on Amazon.com (that's the book's link). The following places and persons are among the ones mentioned or discussed in The Zen Follies: Tassajara Monastery, San Francisco Zen Center, Big River Farm Sangha, Daitokuji Temple in Kyoto; Fil Lewitt (myself), Katagiri Dainin-roshi, Suzuki Shunryu-roshi,  Tatsugami-roshi, Tommy Dorsey-roshi, Ikkyu-roshi, Kobori Nanrei-sensei, Chogyam Trungpa-rinpoche, Dick Baker, Reb Anderson, Bob Walter, Alan Rabold, Jack Elias, David Chadwick, Ed Brown, Dan Welch, Daisy Hellman Paradis, Linda Crawford, Gary Snyder, Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), Harold Brayton, and others. - That's from Fil's message about the book. Read the whole message.

Fil Lewit on cuke, links

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10-22-10 - Zen Monster, Vol. 1, #2  is now on sale @ all 3 ZC bookstores or online @ www.spdbooks.com and 'google' Zen Monster on the site; its around $10. And don't forget Zen Monstor Vol. 1, #1. You can order them both from SFZC Bookstore. Check out the Zen Monster website.

6-14-2010 - Susan Moon writes that This Is Getting Old - a new book from the maker of Tofu Roshi. Here's her blog

11-11-08 - Wisdom Books - Elequent Silence - Nyogen Senzaki - that's the English site but you'll get the idea if you're somewhere else.

9-29-08 - Check out Fil Lewitt's three novels. Here's an Amazon link. And here's a note about them from Fil.

Fil Lewit on cuke, links, more books.

3-08-08 - Gardening at the Dragon's Gate by Wendy Johnson. This new SFZC book is doing very well on Amazon.com.   Bantam's link. SFZC link with upcoming events. Wendy has been on it for something like ten years. It's  beautiful, worth the wait. Order from SFZC Bookstore.  - featured in the NY Times - SF Chron review by Don Lattin

5-01-08 - 5-01-08 - Steve Tipton has a new book out: Public Pulpits: Methodists and Mainline Churches in the Moral Argument of Public Life. - See more on this book and Steve Tipton here.

11-14-07 - Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time By Dainin Katagiri
Shambhala link

2-05-08 - Wake Up Now: A Guide to the Journey of Spiritual Awakening (McGraw-Hill, 2008).

by Stephan Bodian - his website

featuring a blurb by dc:

Remove the Seeker, Remove the Sought - article herein by Bodian on Zen Advaita  - with a bit of bio.

Bay, Jane - Love and Loss: a Story about Live, Death, and Rebirth and Precious Jewels of Tibet: a Journey to the Roof of the World. Clear Light Press - See Jane Bay's web site for more.

Bittner, Mark The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Harmony Books, Jan. 2004
with a neat little role for Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind and Shunryu Suzuki and some interesting speculation on what it's all about toward the end. Check out the book and the movie's website. See what else I wrote about it on this site.
click thumbnail to expand cover

Cohen, Darlene Finding a Joyful Life in the Heart of Pain
List Price: $22.00 Hardcover - 256 pages  (Shambhala Pubns; ISBN: 1570624674
Go to Amazon.com review  
Go to Darlene's interview

More books by Darlene Cohen

Coyote, Peter Sleeping Where I Fall,
Counterpoint Press, 1999.
Excerpt about the Human Be-in mentioning Suzuki

Downing, Michael (Amazon link) Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center Counterpoint Press; ISBN: 1582431132; (October 16, 2001) Comments on this book in cuke.com - and related matter.

Deep Fool by BS Eisenberg, Hara Publishing, 2001. Shocking, disturbing, deeply personal account by a Suzuki student. If you hit the link on the name of the book you can go to my comments on Amazon.com. More comments on this book to come on cuke.com It's an important story that revolves around a rape at Tassajara and how none of us, including Suzuki, responded to it well enough or thoughtfully enough to say the least. - DC.

Elias, Jack (Amazon Link) Finding True Magic. See Jack's interview on this site with a link there to his interview  on the Chronicle Project site for students of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Go to Jack's site, also called Finding True Magic.

Ferguson, Andy. Zen's Chinese Heritage, Wisdom Publications

Opening to You: Zen Inspired Translation of the Psalms by Norman Fischer, Penguin Putnam 2002. Check out Zokestu Norman Fischer's Everyday Zen Foundation.  Don't miss the page on books which includes not only a few suggested core Zen books but Norman's books of poetry, Buddhism, Judaism, and working with youth. Don't miss the poetry and teachings links. Go to Books by Norman Fischer on cuke for more.

3-22-07 - Gary Gach has just launched a new book, 185 brief poems by Ko Un called Flowers of a Moment. Gary is one of three translators of the poetry in this book. The inaugural reading (app. 20 minutes) at Moe's Books is online. Here's the book's web page and here's the Amazon.com link. Here's the email from Gary. Here's Gary's web site.
 

Goldberg, Natalie. Two books featuring Dainin Katagiri: The Long Quiet Highway and The Great Failure. See Natalie's website for more books and more on Natalie like her workshops and art.

Harada, Shodo Morning Dewdrops of the Mind : Teachings of a Contemporary Zen Master and The Path to Bodhidharma: Teachings of Shodo Harada Roshi. More

2-07-06 - Jane Hirshfield has a new book of poetry out named After which just got a great review in the SF Chronicle (2-05). Check her out here - hit Titles (from her page) to see the covers of her NINE books of poetry

Neither Monk nor Layman, Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism, Richard M. Jaffe, Princeton University Press 2001.

Jones, Molly White Magic: Vibrational Medicine in Action  144 pages ISBN: 1583485198
recently available (April, 2000) 
Can be ordered through www. iUniverse. com bookstore or try their page for this book . Their price: $8 95
Go to the review of this book from iUniverse.com.
Go to Molly's letter in the Interview Section.

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life, Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (contributor), Harmony Books 2002 - Here's a blurb I wrote for it that's on the back of the book. - DC She's got more books than that. Here's her Amazon.com page.

Kyoto Journal (Perspectives on Asia) - an excellent magazine out of Kyoto, once called by Howard Rheingold the best magazine in the world, with a good solid web site that is informative and being upgraded right now - 3/26/04. Back issues to 1987 are available and each one is superb. It's ridiculously non profit for a publication so professionally well done. These guys want to keep it a labor of love and earn money in other ways. If I did it I wouldn't have another job, but I guess that's why it's so good. - DC

Marshall, Dr. George R. From a World of Madness to a World of Sanity: Guides for Action. Check out Dr. Marshall's web site which has lots of info on this book. Here's what he wrote to cuke.com: "My book uses Shambhala as an organizing framework for presenting a discussion of ways to create a Sane World. I reference the high esteem Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, the founder of Shambhala Training had for Suzuki Roshi."

Nisker, Wes.

Nisker, Wes. If You Don't Like the News...Go Out and Make Some of Your Own, Ten Speed, 1994.

Nisker, Wes. Crazy Wisdom: New Millennial Edition, Ten Speed, February 1999.

Ogui, Koshin. Zen Shin Talks by Sensei Ogui, Zen Shin Publications, 1998. [Suzuki's old friend and student mentioned in Crooked Cucumber]

Sakaki, Nanao has three poetry books listed on Amazon.com (his page there including other books he's in) : Let's Eat Stars, Break the Mirror: the Poems of Nanao Sakaki (with illustrations by Gary Snyder)- out of print, and Real Play: Poetry and Drama (Tooth of Times) - out of print. He translated poems by Issa Kobayashi and that book is called Inch by Inch: 45 Poems by Issa (La Alameda). There's a book by Gary Lawless with many contributions from various people on Nanao called Nanao or Never: Nanao Sakaki Walks Earth A. I don't understand the "Earth A" part but the title gave me the idea for the title of this piece. These books are published by Blackberry except the two otherwise noted. See Interview with Nanao Sakaki, godfather of Japanese Hippies.

Tarrant, John. Bring Me The Rhinoceros
And Other Zen Koans to Bring You Joy
Published by Harmony Books, October 2004

Go to a page on this Rhino book I ripped off from The Pacific Zen Institute and see the blurbs.

Tarrant, John. The Light Inside the Dark : Zen, Soul, and the Spiritual Life. Perennial, 1999. Amazon link.

Van De Wetering, Janwillem. Afterzen: Experiences of a Zen Student Out on His Ear, Saint Martin's Press, June 1999. Review by DC

Check out Amazon's page on De Wetering's other books on his Zen Experience - The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery and A Glimpse of Nothingness; Experiences in an American Zen Community, and more. He's written a lot. Here's more books, film, info on him on his Wikipedia page.

Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation - UC Press link  - Amazon link

Carl is a co-author of Traditions of Meditation in Chinese Buddhism (Studies in East Asian Buddhism, No 4 - U of Hawaii Press link - Amazon link

See Carl's cuke link page

Sit Down and Shut Up

 Hardcore Zen

Brad Warner - Brad's blog entry with cuke comment

12-06-08 - Brad Warner's ZEN BOOKS THAT DON'T SUCK page.

12-21-08 - A reminder for your holiday gift buying: Shambhala has brought John Tarrant's Bring me Rhinoceros back out

Check out Tarrant's books

and PZI (Pacific Zen Inst)

9-19-08 - Check out Zen Architecture, a book by Shunryu Suzuki disciple, Paul Discoe.

Gib Smith Publisher link

Amazon link.

Paul Discoe, Alexandra Quinn on tour for book 'Zen Architecture: The Building Process as Practice'

Paul Discoe cuke and other links page

The Guitar and the New World: A Fugitive History

reviewed by Taigen Dan Leighton