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Zen Must Read - Reloaded - ChattyNobody - 07-18-2010
Zen Must Read
Ramana Maharshi
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho)
Jiddu Krishnamurti
UG Krishnamurti
Worth the trouble ladies and gentlemen.
Blue Totem suggested:
Also
Miyamoto Mushashi
Takuan Soho
The Fool.parallelperception suggested:
Fingers Pointing Towards The Moon. Wei Wu Wei
The Supreme Doctrine. Hubert Benoit
Hsin Hsin Ming. Ts'eng Tsan
The Zen Teaching of Huang Po
Zen Teaching of Instantaneous Awakening. Hui Hai
(both translated by John Blofeld)
And though it is not Zen, but Dzogchen/Mahamudra (but i'm not really a dogmatic person) those ones are also worth the effort :
Mahamudra The Moonlight Quintessence of Mind and Meditation. Dakpo Tashi Namgyal
Natural Perfection, Longchenpa's Radical Dzogchen
The Supreme Source. Chogyam Namkhai Norbu, Adriano Clemente
And though not Zen either but Advaita Vedanta, worth mentioning :
Avadhuta Gita
Ashtavakra Gita
Gonzo.nagual suggested:
"The Blue Cliff Record"
translated by Thomas and JC Cleary
Shambhala Publications
PS: The original post was deleted due to Snowmind's trolling. I'm requesting Eilias123 and other moderators to put a ban on her.
Regards.
Zen Must Read - Reloaded - snowblind - 07-18-2010
really? Thats awesome! And what gives you the right to edit my words?...unless, my original suspicions are true, which would be extraordinarily unfortunate...
Zen Must Read - Reloaded - Eilias123 - 07-20-2010
you two. please settle your differences in pm. I don't mind you guys openly disagreeing, but please keep it within reason. I'm not a fan of having dog fights or flame wars on this forum.
Zen Must Read - Reloaded - Mornings Son - 08-12-2010
The four books Mumon Roshi refers to are:
Zazengi (How to do Zazen--it is on the internet with comments of Mumon Roshi -in English)
Mumon roshi on Zazen
http://www.zazen.or.jp/E-HOMEPAGE/mumon-e.html
Ten Oxherding Pictures
Patriarch's On Believing in Mind-
"Third Patriarch's On Believing in Mind" - Sheng Yen
http://terebess.hu/english/hsin3.html#02
Patriarch's Song of Enlightenment..
http://www.zensite.de/zensite1/shodoka.htm
Zen Must Read - Reloaded - SelfHealedMadman - 09-02-2010
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I would also like to suggest:
ZEN MIND, BEGINNER'S MIND
by SHUNRYU SUZUKI
I have this in .pdf format. If anyone is interested I can E-mail it to you. Send me a PM if you’d like it.
Kris
Zen Must Read - Reloaded - Lunoor - 09-04-2010
Anything by DT Suzuki, the poets: Basho, Shinkichi Takahashi, Issa, people who I call practical buddhists: Joko Beck and Pema Chodron, also, I have heard that Dogen is good. I am reading this just now:
http://www.wwzc.org/translations/kuge.htm
Zen Must Read - Reloaded - Vrill - 09-08-2010
Great list Chatty.
I would recommend "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones" by Paul Reps the list.
I got to meet Reps in 1974. He definitely embodied Zen
... somehow you have to get yeast into the mix, or the loaf won't rise.
Zen Must Read - Reloaded - Mornings Son - 10-01-2010
The Shōbōgenzō (Treasury of the True Dharma Eye) is the master work of the Japanese Sōtō Zen Master Eihei Dōgen (1200 - 1253).
http://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/ ... plete.html
Zen Must Read - Reloaded - Castor - 05-21-2011
Hi,
My spiritual practice is yoga, so I have read Ashtavakra Gita, and I live the principles of it and Avadutha Gita... But I think that anyone who is on the road of knowledge lives it's values anyway, it was just given trough the different wrapper of knowledge ...
Nice topic!
Castor
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