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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind chart with links to original transcripts of lectures, Marian Derby's minimally edited first draft, first lines from original.

Source Lectures for ZMBM can be found at:

shunryu suzuki dot com on the ZMBM page which has a useful chart and links to source lectures.

On shunryusuzuki.com in the New Search Form under Book, select ZMBM

Beginner's Mind - Marian Derby's original manuscript that led to ZMBM - minimally edited versions - also linked to from the ZMBM page.

5-10-13 - Diamond Sangha Newsletter 1970 review of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

5-01-13 - Today the missing text from the last page of Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-01-12 which became the Mind Waves chapter of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind - with a link to the original transcript and the draft edited with Trudy Dixon's (I think) handwritten notes which had the missing page.

Must make PDFs of all the material from the Los Altos Box.

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.]
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).

ZMBM at 40 - with notes and links and a few lines that were cut.

10-20-12 - JW decided to translate Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind into Esperanto

Suzuki books page on cuke.com

Read the original Beginner's Mind lecture and the edited version, the Prologue from ZMBM , also from ZMBM, the 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]

ZMBM in Crooked Cucumber

Earliest Shunryu Suzuki Lectures

Finding the ZMBM manuscript - 5-17-08

10-09-12 - Tom Cabarga sends this about his father translating Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind into Spanish

10-23-12 - ZMBM in Esperanto discussion

12-17-12 - Flint Sparks is a Zen teacher in Austin who sent a note about teaching from Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind in France. Here it is.

1-07-12 - Jon Katz is a criminal defense attorney in Maryland and has this bit on Buddhism and Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.

Go to shunryusuzuki.com to the Shunryu Suzuki Lecture Index to see the original lectures ZMBM was based on. They're marked in the second column with a little ZM and the page number.

40th anniversary issue cover

The new Japanese translation of Zen Mind Beginner's Mind. The bottom part with Jobs on it is not part of the cover but a promotional wrap that goes around the book.
posted 7-21-12

Thanks to Richard Jaffe for sending this image with the following note:

I just returned from Japan, where I picked up a few copies of the new Japanese translation of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Note the "obi" on the book, which refers to the it as "the 'Zen Bible' loved by Steven Jobs.". Nice marketing job, as books about Jobs and Apple are extremely popular in the major Japanese bookstores these days.

I haven't been able to read it closely yet, but I hear it is a much better translation than the earlier Japanese ones.

DC note: The title is not translated. It reads Zen Maindo Beginaazu Maindo - their way of saying Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.

Jaffe says the rest means: "Translated in more than 24 countries worldwide. This introduction to Zen is a memorial of Suzuki Shunryu-, who brought zazen to America."

At first I thought it was the cover and wrote "I'm not sure what adjective to use - shameless? embarrassing? humorous? Way cool?" But now Jaffe has explained that it's just something they stuck on the book to promote it I forgive them. - dc