The Poetry of Zen

8 best books like The Poetry of Zen (Sam Hamill): Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, The Dharma Bums, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice, Breakfast with Buddha, Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad, Buddhist Boot Camp, The Psychology of Zelda: Linking Our World to the Legend of Zelda Series

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Author	Natalie Goldberg
ISBN	1590303164

For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice--"it...

The Dharma Bums

Author

Jack Kerouac

Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, and "yabyum" in San Francisco's Bohemia, to solitude in the high Sierras and a vigil atop Desolation Peak in Washington State. Published just a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation...

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Author	Shunryu Suzuki
ISBN	0834800799

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”

So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. In a single stroke, the simple sentence...

Breakfast with Buddha

Author	Roland Merullo
ISBN	1565125525

The only thing certain about a journey is that it has a beginning and an end—for you never know what may happen along the way. And so it is with this journey into the minds and souls of two very different men—one of them in search of the truth, the other a man who may have already found it.

When...

Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death

Author	Yoel Hoffmann
ISBN	0804831793

"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pity, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." —Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

Although the consciousness of...

Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

Author	Austin Kleon
ISBN	1523506644

Keep Working. Keep Playing. Keep Creating.

In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known. Now he offers his most inspiring work yet, with ten simple...

Buddhist Boot Camp

Author	Timber Hawkeye
ISBN	0062267434

A collection of short journal entries and letters sent to friends over the course of an eight-year journey to mindful living. Buddhism is all about training the mind, and boot camp is an ideal training method for this generation's short attention span. The chapters in this small book can be read in any...

The Psychology of Zelda: Linking Our World to the Legend of Zelda Series

Author

Anthony M. Bean

It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this (book). 
For more than 30 years, The Legend of Zelda—which immerses players in a courageous struggle against the shadowy forces of evil in a world of high fantasy—has spanned more than 30 different installments, selling over 75 million copies. Today,...