books of Shunryu Suzuki lectures

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About Suzuki Roshi

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Core Books by and about Shunryu Suzuki (by in that they are his lectures edited by his students, or his words as they remember it)

Main cuke bibliography

Basic info on Shunryu Suzuki

order them from SFZC Bookstore

shunryusuzuki.com - the archive comes to you - all the transcripts, all the audio - and more.

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.

Other books by Ed Brown

Suzuki Roshi
lectures on the San Do Kai---
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Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness by Shunryu Suzuki
Mel Weitsman & Michael Wenger (Editors) $22.50 Paperback - 197 pages (November 1999) University of California Press ISBN: 0520219821
For more info go to Branching Streams.
Branching Streams - UC Press page
and, from the UCPress website,
Read Chapter 1, "Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: first talk"

See TASSAJARA AND SUZUKI IN THE TIME OF THE SANDOKAI TALKS - new 4-11

Wind Bell: Teachings from the San Francisco Zen Center - 1968-2001 North Atlantic Books, 2001. A great collection of various articles, including Suzuki lectures, from old Wind Bells.

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

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Read the original Beginner's Mind lecture
Preface and chapter named Repetition

3-13-09 - ZMBM at Thirty-eight and Counting. This is the unedited version of an article written by me, DC, for the fall 2008, 25th anniversary, issue of Inquiring Mind for their Dharma Treasure series]

4-04-10 - cuke/zmbm page begun today. More to come.

10-10-10 - zmbm.net (same links as cuke/zmbm with a different presentation and address)

the Shambhala link to Shambhala books by Shunryu Suzuki which are editions of ZMBM and Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind [edited by DC] . Amazon link. Shambhala Publications link and Amazon link to the 40th anniversary issue of ZMBM.

ZMBM at 40 (the afterword to the 40th anniversary issue of ZMBM by DC)

Zen IS Right Here, Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

By Shunryu Suzuki
Edited by David Chadwick

Paperback / Shambhala Publications / 160 pages / 4 7/8 x 7
ISBN 978-1-59030-491-4 / October 2007

Zen Is Right Here (Shambhala link) List Price: $12.95 Shambhala Price: $10.36, you save $2.59 (20%)

Zen Is Right Here home page on cuke

Zen is Right Here once was

To Shine One Corner of the World: Moments with Shunryu Suzuki

- Amazon.com link

And, of course, there's the biography of Shunryu Suzuki that this web site was originally launched to promote

Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki

by David Chadwick

Broadway Books, 1999
432 pages with 16 pages of b/w photos.

Crooked Cucumber page

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

Just stumbled across this not yet released book: 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

And then there's Thank You and OK!: an American Zen Failure in Japan which has more about Suzuki in it than any other book except Crooked Cucumber - 17 pages all added up.

check out the Thank You and OK home page

Go to link for these books in this site's bibliography which includes Amazon.com links.

9-06-07 - Letter to DC from Yeachin Tsai

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I am very happy to inform you that Shunryu Suzuki's "Not Always So" has been published in Taipei, Taiwan, on Aug. 24, 2007. The book so far has been very well received by the huge Zen Buddhists population in Taiwan. As my recent knowledge, it also starts its selling in the bookstores in Hong Kong and Malaysia. For people who can read Chinese, they can go to this link to purchase the book.

Thank you for all your help on the process of translating this book (which I mentioned it in the translator's note). Wish all is well with you.

Your in the Dharma,
Translator, Yeachin Tsai
New York, USA
www.everydayink.com
http://shambhalachinese.blogspot.com/

The art of Yeachin Tsai - and. Here's her daily art blog.

Basic info on Shunryu Suzuki

books by David Chadwick