Suggested Reading

Practicing Zen / Getting Started:

Shrunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind Beginner's Mind and Not Always So

Normon Fischer, Taking Our Places: The Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up; Sailing Home

Robert Aitken, Taking the Path of Zen

Thich Naht Hahn, The Miracle of Mindfulness

Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen

John Diado Loori, The Still Point

John Daishin Bukspazen, Zen Meditation in Plain English

Robert Aitken, Mind of Clover

Reb Anderson, Being Upright

Daine Eshin Rizzetto , Waking Up to What You Do

Shrunryu Suzuki, Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness

David Chadwick, Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki

Kazuaki Tanahashi, Enlightenment Unfolds

Robert Aitken, The Practice of Perfection

Bhikkhu Bodhi, In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon

Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

Joseph Goldstein, The Experience of Insight

Gil Fronsdal, The Issue at Hand

Jack Kornfield, Path with Heart

Pema Chodron, The Wisdom of No Escape; When Things Fall Apart

Chogyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom

Red Cedar Zen Website: www.redcedarzen.org

Mountain Rain Zen Community (our sister sangha in Vancouver): www.mountainrainzen.ca

Everyday Zen Foundation (Normon Fischer): www.everydayzen.org

San Francisco Zen Center: www.sfzc.org

Access to Insight (Theravadin Buddhism) www.accessto insight.org