Suggested Readings

San Bo Beginners

Dokusan with Dogen: timeless lessons in negotiating the way, Barbara Verkuilen (public library) (Amazon)

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Shunryu Suzuki-roshi (public library) (Amazon)

The Kyosaku, selected essays, Soyu Matsuoka-roshi

(public library) (Amazon)

Moku-Rai, Soyu Matsuoka-Roshi (public library) (Amazon)

Jukai Intermediate

The Heart of Being: Moral and Ethical Teachings of Zen Buddhism, John Daido Loori-roshi (public library) (Amazon)

Being Upright: Zen Meditation and the Bodhisattva Precepts, Reb Anderson-roshi (public library) (Amazon)

The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation, Thich Nhat Hanh (public library) (Amazon)

What the Buddha Taught, Walpola Rahula (public library) (Amazon)

Buddha, Karen Armstrong (public library) (Amazon)

At Hell’s Gate: A Soldier's Journey, Claude Anshin Thomas (public library) (Amazon)

The Mind of Clover: Essays in Zen Buddhist Ethics, Robert Aitkin (public library) (Amazon)

Cultivating the Empty Field, Trans by Taigen Dan Leighton (public library) (Amazon)

Living Zen, Harvey Daiho Hilbert-roshi (public library) (Amazon)

Disciples – Advanced

Zen is Eternal Life, Jiyo Kennett-roshi (public library) (Amazon)

Old Path, White Clouds, Thich Nhat Hanh (public library) (Amazon)

The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, trans. by Yampolsky (public library) (Amazon)

Opening the Hand of Thought, Uchiyama-roshi (public library) (Amazon)

How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment, Uchiyama-roshi (public library) (Amazon)

The Wholehearted Way; A Translation of Eihei Dagen's Bendowa, With Commentary by Kosho Uchiyama Rosh, Uchiyama-roshi (public library) (Amazon)

Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo, Okumura-roshi (public library) (Amazon)

Instructions to the Cook: A Zen Master's Lessons in Living a Life that Matters, Glassman & Fields (public library) (Amazon)

The Wisdom Books: The Diamond Sutra and the Heart Sutra edited and translated by Edward Conze (public library) (Amazon)

Bearing Witness: A Zen Master's Lessons in Making Peace, Bernie Glassman (public library) (Amazon)

The Compass of Zen, Seung Sahn (public library) (Amazon)

The Eight Gates of Zen: A Program of Zen Training, John Daido Loori-roshi (public library) (Amazon)

Eloquent Silence, Nyogen Senzaki (public library) (Amazon)

Zen in Your Pocket, Harvey Daiho Hilbert-roshi (Amazon)

Shukke Advanced

The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, translated by Red Pine (public library) (Amazon)

Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo, volumes 1-4, trans. & edited by Gudo Nishijima (public library) (Amazon)

The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom, translated and commentary by Red Pine (public library) (Amazon)

The Heart Sutra, translated and commentary by Red Pine (public library) (Amazon)

The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng, translated and commentary by Red Pine (public library) (Amazon)