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)

[excerpts to come] Bibliography

Basic info on Shunryu Suzuki

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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"

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

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%)

Not yet printed. Now accepting pre-orders! Expected publication date, October 2007.

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

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/

Basic info on Shunryu Suzuki

books by David Chadwick