The Wisdom of Shunryu Suzuki (II)
Also from Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.
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The Wisdom of Shunryu Suzuki (I)
From Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you […]
Book Report: The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan W. Watts (1951, ?)
The title of this book certainly fits into the philsophy kinds of books that I might like to pick up. Its size (short and paperback) meant it would make a good carry book for me. It did. As I was reading it at the dojo, a very well-read teenager there recognized Watts’ name. After I […]
Book Report: Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki (1970, 1999)
It took me two tries to read this book; I started it last year and got about halfway through it, enjoying it for what it was before taking it out of my pocket as my carry book and planning to read the last half of it all at once. That didn’t happen, so I started […]
2017: The Year’s Reading In Review
Well, 2017 has drawn to a close, and with it, I’ve closed my annual log of books that I read. In 2017, I read 87 books, ish. As you might know, some of them have been omnibus editions, where three novels or five novels are in a single binding, and I count that as a […]