Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

This book is about how to practice Zen as a workable discipline and religion, about posture and breathing, about the basic attitudes and understanding that make Zen practice possible, about non-duality, emptiness, and enlightenment. Here one begins to understand what Zen is really about. And, most important of all, every page breathes with the joy and simplicity that make a liberated life possible. The book originated from a series of talks given by Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki to a small group in Los Altos, California. Says the author, "The world is its own magic" -- a feeling that pervades the entire book.