Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki

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Author: David Chadwick

Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic, “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind.” This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in “Crooked Cucumber,” the first full biography of any Zen master to be published in the West. To create his intimate and engrossing narrative, David Chadwick draws on Suzuki’s own words and the memorie….Read More

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