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From: mayne@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu (William (Bill) Mayne)
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Subject: Re: Zen Books
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Date: 18 Oct 90 06:12:52 GMT
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In article <1990Oct17.041532.27945@nas.nasa.gov> tilley@cs.rochester.edu (Dave Tilley) writes:
[several book recommendations omitted]
>Also Check out Roshi Phillip Kapleau (sp?) From Rochester NY.
>Three Pillars of Zen
>Zen; Dawn In The West
>The Wheel of Life and Death
>Each Life Is Precious (I think thats the name, about vegitarianism)
>Dave Tilley

The actual title of the last one, about vegetarianism, is actually
"To Cherish All Life". This is taken from Kapleau's version of the
precepts (from "Zen: Dawn in the West", I think). In his version
he adds a positive aspect to the traditional prohibition for each
precept. Thus the first precept becomes "Not to kill, but to cherish
all life."

It is a good book, though as Dave Tilley says it is about vegetarianism,
with emphasis on the moral considerations from a Buddhist perspective.
It has relatively little about Zen per se.

Also worth reading, and I think not on Dave's list, is "Zen Mind,
Beginner's Mind" by S. Suzuki.

Bill Mayne
Florida State University
mayne@nu.cs.fsu.edu