Members of the Elberon Zen Circle have found the books listed below to be of particularly help in their practice and with their understanding of the Zen tradition.

Most books can be found at your local book store or can be ordered on-line thru major E-commerce distributors, who can also lead you to used copies. Some books listed here may be out of print; these are sometimes available in used condition on-line as well.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

 

Shunryu Suzuki

Not Always So:

Practicing the True Spirit of Zen

 

Shunryu Suzuki

 

Edward Espe Brown (Editor)

Branching Streams Flow

in the Darkness:

Zen Talks on the Sandokai

 

Shunryu Suzuki

To Shine One Corner of the World:

Moments with Suzuki Roshi

David Chadwick, ed.

Wind Bell:

Teachings from the San Francisco Zen Center

1968-2001

 

Michael Wenger, ed.

Crooked Cucumber:

the Life and Zen Teaching

of Shunryu Suzuki

 

David Chadwick

Opening to You:

Zen-Inspired Translations of the Psalms

 

Norman Fischer

Chan Insights and Oversights

 

Bernard Faure

The Wholehearted Way:

a Translation of

Eihei Dogen's Bendowa

 

Kosho Uchiyama-roshi,

with Shohaku Okamura

and Taigen Dan Leighton,

trans. & ed.

Flowers Fall:

A Commentary

on Dogen's Genjokoan

 

Hakuun Yasutani

and Taizan Maezumi

Moon in a Dewdrop

Writings of Zen Master Dogen

 

edited by

Kazuaki Tanahashi

Essential Zen

 

edited by

Kazuaki Tanahashi &

Tensho David Schneider

Jerusalem Moonlight

Norman Fischer

Being Upright:

Zen Meditation and

the Bodhisattva Precepts

Reb Anderson

Warm Smiles

from Cold Mountains:

Dharma Talks

on Zen Meditation

Reb Anderson

Bodhisattva Archetypes :

Classic Buddhist

Guides to Awakening

and Their Modern Expression

Taigen Daniel Leighton

Cultivating the Empty Field:

the Silent Illumination

of Zen Master Hongzhi

translated by

Taigen Daniel Leighton

and Yi Wu

The Teachings of Zen Master Dogen

edited by

Kazuaki Tanahashi

 

abridged audio

cassette read by

Gary Snyder

Returning to Silence:

Zen Practice in Daily Life

 

Dainin Katagiri

edited by

Yoko Conniff

& Willa Hathaway

You Have to Say Something:

Manifesting Zen Insight

 

Dainin Katagiri

edited by

Steve Hagen

Cooking and Housekeeping as Practice

Tomato Blessings

and Radish Teachings:

Recipes and Reflections

 

Edward Espe Brown

The Tassajara Bread Book

 

Edward Espe Brown

 

 

another classic book

Sweeping Changes

 

Gary Thorp

 

introduction by

Edward Espe Brown

Frields of Greens:

New Vegetarian Recipies

from the Celebrated

Greens Restaurant

 

Annie Somerville

Three Bowl Cookbook:

The Secrets of

Enlightened Cooking

from the Zen Mountain

 

David Scott

& Tom Pappas

3 Bowls: Vegetarian Recipes

from an American

Zen Buddhist Monestery

 

Seppo Ed Farrey

& Myochi Nancy O'Hara