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“Within the newbie’s thoughts there are numerous prospects, however within the skilled’s there are few.” So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of phrases supplied a instructing as wealthy as has this well-known opening line of Shunryu Suzuki’s traditional. In a single stroke, the easy sentence cuts by way of the pervasive tendency college students have of getting so near Zen as to utterly miss what it is all about. An immediate instructing on the primary web page. And that is only the start.
Within the thirty years since its authentic publication, Zen Thoughts, Newbie’s Thoughts has turn out to be one of many nice fashionable Zen classics, a lot beloved, a lot re-read, and far beneficial as one of the best first guide to learn on Zen. Suzuki Roshi presents the fundamentals—from the main points of posture and inhaling zazen to the notion of nonduality—in a means that isn’t solely remarkably clear, however that additionally resonates with the enjoyment of perception from the primary to the final web page. It is a guide to return again to time and time once more as an inspiration to follow.