Zen Must Read - Reloaded

[ChattyNobody]

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.

[snowblind]

really? Thats awesome! And what gives you the right to edit my words?...unless, my original suspicions are true, which would be extraordinarily unfortunate...

[Eilias123]

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.

[Mornings Son]

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

[SelfHealedMadman]

~
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

[Lunoor]

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

[Vrill]

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.

[Mornings Son]

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

[Castor]

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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