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10 best books like Taking the Path of Zen (Robert Aitken): The Zen Path Through Depression, The Three Pillars of Zen, Nothing Special, Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice, Waking Up to What You Do: A Zen Practice for Meeting Every Situation with Intelligence and Compassion, The Diamond Sutra and The Sutra of Hui-Neng, Returning to Silence, Manual of Zen Buddhism, The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, A Buddhist Bible

The Zen Path Through Depression
AuthorPhilip Martin
ISBN0060654465
Drawing on his own struggle, Philip Martin reveals another path people can travel to get through depression - one that not only eases the pain, but mends the spirit. Extremely accessible to people with little or no Zen experience as well as to longtime students of Buddhism, The Zen Path Through Depression...
The Three Pillars of Zen
AuthorPhilip Kapleau
ISBN0385260938
Through explorations of the three pillars of Zen--teaching, practice, and enlightenment--Roshi Philip Kapleau presents a comprehensive overview of the history and discipline of Zen Buddhism.  An established classic, this 35th anniversary edition features new illustrations and photographs,...
Nothing Special
AuthorCharlotte Joko Beck
ISBN0062511173
WHEN NOTHING IS SPECIAL, EVERYTHING CAN BE

The best-selling author of 'Everyday Zen' shows how to awaken to daily life and discover the ideal in the everyday, finding riches in our feelings, relationships, and work. 'Nothing Special' offers the rare and delightful experience of learning...
Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice
AuthorKosho Uchiyama
ISBN0861713575
Reading about Zen is alot like reading about food. There are those glossy coffetable books that show off the aesthetic of fresh food or the creativity of the author/photographer and there are solid books filled with recipies that make your mouth water. It`s theory and practice. There are a lot of Books...
Waking Up to What You Do: A Zen Practice for Meeting Every Situation with Intelligence and Compassion
AuthorDiane Eshin Rizzetto
ISBN1590303423
Life is rising up to meet us at every moment. The question is: Are we there to meet it or not? Diane Rizzetto presents a simple but supremely effective practice for meeting every moment of our lives with mindfulness, using the Zen precepts as tools to develop a keen awareness of the motivations behind every...
The Diamond Sutra and The Sutra of Hui-Neng
AuthorHui-Neng
ISBN0877730059
The Diamond Sutra, composed in India in the 4th century CE, is one of the most treasured works of Buddhist literature & is the oldest existing printed book in the world. It's known as the Diamond Sutra because its teachings are said to be like diamonds that cut away all dualistic thought, releasing...
Returning to Silence
AuthorDainin Katagiri
ISBN0877734313
For twenty-five hundred years Buddhism has taught that everyone is Buddha—already enlightened, lacking nothing. But still there is the question of how we can experience that truth in our lives. In this book, Dainin Katagiri points to the manifestation of enlightenment right here, right now, in...
Manual of Zen Buddhism
AuthorD.T. Suzuki
ISBN0802130658
Here are the famous sutras, or sermons, of the Buddha, the gathas, or hymns, the intriguing philosophical puzzles known as koan, and the dharanis, or invocations to expel evil spirits. Included also are the recorded conversations of the great Buddhist monks—intimate dialogues on the subjects...
The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
AuthorBodhidharma
ISBN0865473994
A fifth-century Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma is credited with bringing Zen to China. Although the tradition that traces its ancestry back to him did not flourish until nearly two hundred years after his death, today millions of Zen Buddhists and students of kung fu claim him as their spiritual...
A Buddhist Bible
AuthorDwight Goddard
ISBN0807059110
A wide selection of readings from Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, and modern sources intended to provide the reader with a foundation in classical Buddhist thought.

The first book to bring together the key texts of modern Buddhism.

In the last hundred years, the world, especially...
The Diamond Sutra
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN1582432562
Zen Buddhism is often said to be a practice of mind-to-mind transmission without reliance on texts --in fact, some great teachers forbid their students to read or write. But Buddhism has also inspired some of the greatest philosophical writings of any religion, and two such works lie at the center of...
Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen
AuthorDōgen
Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), among the first to transmit Zen Buddhism from China to Japan and founder of the important Soto School, was not only a profoundly influential and provocative Zen philosopher but also one of the most stimulating figures in Japanese letters.

Kazuaki Tanahashi, collaborating...
Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen
AuthorShunryu Suzuki
ISBN0060957549
Practising the true spirit of Zen.

Not Always So is based on Shunryu Suzuki's lectures and is framed in his own inimitable, allusive, paradoxical style, rich with unexpected and off–centre insights. Suzuki knew he was dying at the time of the lectures, which gives his thoughts an urgency...
Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki
AuthorDavid Chadwick
ISBN0767901053
Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in Crooked Cucumber, the first full biography of any Zen master to be published in the West. To make up his intimate and engrossing...
Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy
AuthorKatsuki Sekida
ISBN0834801140
I don't pretend to understand most of this book. It was a heavy read, at times plodding - and yet I'm glad to have had the chance to read it. Certain passages struck me:

Someday you will have this kind of experience. And one day, when you emerge from it, rising from your seat, stepping across the doorsill,...
Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals, 1969-1982
AuthorPeter Matthiessen
ISBN1570623678
In August 1968, naturalist-explorer Peter Matthiessen returned from Africa to his home in Sagaponack, Long Island, to find three Zen masters in his driveway—guests of his wife, a new student of Zen. Thirteen years later, Matthiessen was ordained a Buddhist monk. Written in the same format as his...
A Glimpse of Nothingness: Experiences in an American Zen Community
AuthorJanwillem van de Wetering
ISBN0312209452
I had another book on the go that I was having trouble getting through when I had a moment of despair and decided to pick this one up, having a feeling that it would be more appealing, since I really enjoyed the first book in the series, An Empty Mirror. I was right - I breezed through this one in a week. Not sure...
Essential Buddhism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs and Practices
AuthorJack Maguire
ISBN0671041886
Four hundred million people call themselves Buddhists today. Yet most Westerners know little about this powerful, Eastern-spawned faith. How did it begin? What do its adherents believe? Why are so many Westerners drawn to it?
Essential Buddhism responds to these questions and many more, offering...
The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza
AuthorJohn Daido Loori
Shikantaza--or "just sitting"--is one of the simplest, most subtle forms of meditation, and one of the most easily misunderstood. This peerless volume brings together a wealth of writings, from the Buddha himself to Bodhidharma and Dogen and many of modern Zen Buddhism's most influential masters,...
The New Meditation Handbook: Meditations to Make Our Life Happy and Meaningful
AuthorKelsang Gyatso
ISBN0948006900
This book is not your typical meditation handbook. While it does clearly explain the necessity for and various methods of meditation, it also delves into more esoteric aspects of Buddhism. Parts of it read like a sort of biblical Ten Commandments of what you have to do in order to avoid going to hell. Or...
Essential Zen
AuthorKazuaki Tanahashi
ISBN0062510460
I liked this book quite a bit. It is a collection of quotes and other words about Zen, called Koans, from ancient times to now.

The preface says Zen is not really about reading about Zen, and Zen is outside of words, but you have to start somewhere, and people have been writing about it for ever, so...
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