Suggested Reading List
~ Recommended Reading ~
Precepts
- Being Upright - Reb Anderson
- The Heart of Being - John Daido Loori
- Waking Up to What You Do - Diane Rizzetto
Liturgy
- Infinite Circle - Bernie Glassman
- Living by Vow - Shohaku Okumura
- Bringing the Sacred to Life: The Daily Practice of Zen Ritual - John Daido Loori
- Heart Sutra - Kaz Tanahashi
- The Heart Sutra - Red Pine
- Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness - Shunryu Suzuki
Koans
- The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans - Koun Yamada
- Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan - Zenkai Shibayama
- The Record of Transmitting the Light: Zen Master Keizan's Denkoroku - Francis H. Cook
- Book of Serenity: One Hundred Zen Dialogues - Thomas Cleary
- The Book of Equanimity: Illuminating Classic Zen Koans - Gerry Shishin Wick
- The Blue Cliff Record - Thomas Cleary and J.C. Cleary
- The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of • Awakened Women • Zenshin Florence Caplow and Reigetsu - Susan Moon
Our teachers
- Nine Headed Dragon River - Peter Matthiessen
- Instructions to the Cook - Bernie Glassman
- Bearing Witness - Bernie Glassman
- Appreciate your Life - Taizan Maezumi
- Teaching of the Great Mountain - Taizan Maezumi
- Endless Vow - Soen Nakagawa
- Treasury of the True Dharma Eye- Eihei Dogen, translated by Kaz Tanahashi
More Zen
- Zen in Plain English - John Dishin Buksbazen (foreword by Peter Matthiessen).
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind - Shunryu Suzuki
- Trust in Mind - Mu Soeng
- The Diamond Sutra - Red Pine
- The Platform Sutra - Red Pine
- Training in Compassion - Norman Fischer
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