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From: tilley@cs.rochester.edu (Dave Tilley)
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Subject: Re: Zen Books
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Date: 20 Oct 90 18:03:39 GMT
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In article <1990Oct18.061252.19494@nas.nasa.gov> mayne@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu (William (Bill) Mayne) writes:
>
>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



Ah yes! "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind", is a very nice book as well. The list
of books goes on and on. This was one of my first books about Zen.

This week I read "The Unfettered Mind". It is a translation of 3 letters from
a Zen Master (Takuan Soho) to a Sward Master (Miyamoto Musashi).

Great Book (Trans. William Scott Wilson, Pub. Kodansha International)

ISBN 0-87011-851-X

Dave
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