Suggested Reading
This page features a variety of excellent resources for studying Zen and Buddhism. The first section is books, and the second is online resources.
SUGGESTED BOOKS
Practicing Zen/Getting Started
- Norman Fischer & Susan Moon, What Is Zen?
- Shrunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind and Not Always So
- Normon Fischer, Taking Our Places: The Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up; Sailing Home
- Robert Aitken, Taking the Path of Zen
- Thich Naht Hahn, The Miracle of Mindfulness
- Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen
- John Diado Loori, The Still Point
- John Daishin Bukspazen, Zen Meditation in Plain English
Bodhisattva Precepts (Zen Ethics)
- Robert Aitken, Mind of Clover
- Reb Anderson, Being Upright
- Daine Eshin Rizzetto, Waking Up to What You Do
Zen Studies
- Shrunryu Suzuki, Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness
- David Chadwick, Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki
- Kazuaki Tanahashi, Enlightenment Unfolds
- Robert Aitken, The Practice of Perfection
Early Buddhism (Theravada)
- Bhikkhu Bodhi, In the Buddha’s Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon
- Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
Vipassana/Insight
- Joseph Goldstein, The Experience of Insight
- Gil Fronsdal, The Issue at Hand
- Jack Kornfield, Path with Heart
Tibetan/Vajrayana
- Pema Chodron, The Wisdom of No Escape; When Things Fall Apart
- Chogyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom
SUGGESTED ONLINE RESOURCES
Zen Groups
- The Everyday Zen Foundation (Norman Fischer)
- Mountain Rain Zen Community (our sister sangha in Vancouver, B.C.)
- Puerto Vallarta Zen Group (Rick Spencer)
- San Francisco Zen Center
- Seattle Soto Zen
- Three Treasures Sangha (Seattle)
- Zen Community of Oregon (Portland)
- The Mountains and Rivers Order (New York State)
- Olympia Zen Center
Internet Buddhist Resources
- Lion's Roar Magazine
- Tricycle Magazine
- Buddhist Sutras from the Pali
- Buddhist Studies Virtual Library
- International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism