Full name: Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki

Author: David Chadwick Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing Goodreads ISBNs: 9780767901048 9780767901055 0767901045 0767901053

Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in Crooked Cucumber, the first full biography of any Zen master to be published in the West. To make up his intimate and engrossing narrative, David Chadwick draws on Suzuki's own words and the memories of his students, friends, and family. Interspersed with previously unpublished passages from Suzuki's talks, Crooked Cucumber evokes a down-to-earth life of the spirit. Along with Suzuki we can find a way to "practice with mountains, trees, and stones and to find ourselves in this big world." Similar books: The Eight Gates of Zen by John Daido Loori Not Always So by Shunryu Suzuki Returning to Silence by Dainin Katagiri Opening the Hand of Thought by Kosho Uchiyama Roshi Moon in a Dewdrop by Eihei Dogen Nothing Special by Charlotte Joko Beck Zen Effects by Monica Furlong Appreciate Your Life by Taizan Maezumi Zen Essence by Thomas Cleary Taking the Path of Zen by Robert Aitken On Zen Practice by Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Manual of Zen Buddhism by D. T. Suzuki The Mind of Clover by Robert Aitken Zen Training by Katsuki Sekida The Complete Idiot's Guide to Zen Living by Gary R. McClain