SUGGESTED READING

Contemporary Zen Teachers in America:

Aitken, Robert, Taking the Path of Zen.

Beck, Charlotte Joko, Everyday Zen.

Friedman, Lenore, Meetings with Remarkable Women.

Glassman, Bernard, Bearing Witness.

Hanh, Thich Nhat, The Miracle of Mindfulness and Zen Keys.

Kapleau, Philip, The Three Pillars of Zen.

Katagiri, Dainin, Returning to Silence.

Loori, John Daido, The Eight Gates of Zen.

Sahn, Seung, Dropping Ashes on the Buddha.

Suzuki, Shunryu, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.

Wick, Gerry Shishin and Perez, Ilia Shinko, The Great Heart Way.

On Koan Practice:

Loori, John Daido, Two Arrows Meeting in Mid-Air.

Sahn Seung, The Whole World Is a Single Flower.

Contemporary Personal Accounts of Zen Training:

Goldberg, Natalie, Long Quiet Highway.

Matthiessen, Peter, Nine-Headed Dragon River.

Shainberg, Lawrence, Ambivalent Zen.

Strand, Clark, The Wooden Bowl.

On Zen in America:

Chadwich, David, Crooked Cucumber. [Biography of Suzuki Roshi.] Fields, Rick, How the Swans Came to the Lake. [Comprehensive history of American Buddhism.]

Shimano, Eido T., Endless Vow: The Zen Path of Soen Nakgawa.

On Ancient Masters and History of Zen in the East:

Foster, Nelson and Shoemaker, Jack, The Roaring Stream: A New Zen Reader.

General Zen Readers/Anthologies:

Tonkinson, Carole, Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation.

Reps, Paul and Senzaki, Nyogen, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones. [101 traditional Zen stories, and more.]

Smith, Jean, 365 Zen.

Tanahashi, Kazuaki, and Schneider, Tensho David, Essential Zen [Stories from Eastern and Western sources.]

Zen, Travel, and Adventure:

Chadwick, David, Thank You and OK! An American Zen Failure in Japan.

Crane, George, The Bones of the Master.

Matthiessen, Peter, The Snow Leopard.

Zen, Creativity, and the Arts:

Goldberg, Natalie, Writing Down the Bones, Wild Mind, and Thunder and Lightning.

Loori, John Daido, The Zen of Creativity.

Strand, Clark, Seeds from a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey.