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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
by Shunryu Suzuki
Before I was accepted and lived in a Zen Buddhist Mountain Monastery, https://zmm.org/, a conservative, phenomenal and original Zen Monks Monastery in the snowy mountains of Mount Templer New York... the recruiting monk asked me over the phone:
Do you practice meditation often? I said not that often... how about Zazen meditation? I didn't know what she was referring to. ( I came to know in practice too well later on lol)
Then she continued: What or who made you decide to join us? I was direct and honest: Alan Watts!
She paused and the line stayed mute for a few seconds, I almost thought that she would hang up... then thankfully she re-emerged, like from a slumber, and veeeryy calmly and slowly re-engaged the conversation saying: Wellllll I didn't really would recommend him. (I already knew why)
So who do you recommend I inquired ?
She said: Suzuki Roshi... Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.
I thanked her and after some insistence (and payment of course) she accepted my 3 months internship.
Was a magical and life changing experience. Not a walk in the park and definitely not a vacation retirement. But a life altering and enhancing richly experience of life that I'm very proud to have taken.
Of course at the first moment I could spare to put my feet in the library of the monastery I placed my hands on this marvelous work of immortal reverence.
Master Suzuki, didn't really write this book. But it is a compilation of his many, many speeches on different monasteries and was masterfully compiled.
He explains everything since what meditation is really and what is (zazen) to what is the meaning of us all here.
A must read! Fantastic book. thank you recruiting monk
Do you practice meditation often? I said not that often... how about Zazen meditation? I didn't know what she was referring to. ( I came to know in practice too well later on lol)
Then she continued: What or who made you decide to join us? I was direct and honest: Alan Watts!
She paused and the line stayed mute for a few seconds, I almost thought that she would hang up... then thankfully she re-emerged, like from a slumber, and veeeryy calmly and slowly re-engaged the conversation saying: Wellllll I didn't really would recommend him. (I already knew why)
So who do you recommend I inquired ?
She said: Suzuki Roshi... Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.
I thanked her and after some insistence (and payment of course) she accepted my 3 months internship.
Was a magical and life changing experience. Not a walk in the park and definitely not a vacation retirement. But a life altering and enhancing richly experience of life that I'm very proud to have taken.
Of course at the first moment I could spare to put my feet in the library of the monastery I placed my hands on this marvelous work of immortal reverence.
Master Suzuki, didn't really write this book. But it is a compilation of his many, many speeches on different monasteries and was masterfully compiled.
He explains everything since what meditation is really and what is (zazen) to what is the meaning of us all here.
A must read! Fantastic book. thank you recruiting monk