Zen mind, beginner's mind

[This book consists] of a collection of stories and meditations on Zen practice that originated from a series of talks given by Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki to a small group in California.*

Contents

• Preface / Huston Smith

• Introduction / Richard Baker

• Prologue: Beginner's mind

• Posture

• Breathing

• Control

• Mind waves

• Mind weeds

• The marrow of Zen

• No dualism

• Bowing

• Nothing special

• Single-minded way

• Repetition

• Zen and excitement

• Right effort

• No trace

• God giving

• Mistakes in practice

• Limiting your activity

• Study yourself

• To polish a tile

• Constancy

• Communication

• Negative and positive

• Nirvana, the waterfall

• Traditional Zen spirit

• Transiency

• The quality of being

• Naturalness

• Emptiness

• Readiness, mindfulness

• Believing in nothing

• Attachment, nonattachment

• Calmness

• Experience, not philosophy

• Original Buddhism

• Beyond consciousness

• Buddha's enlightenment

• Epilogue: Zen mind.