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- an archival site on the life and world of Shunryu Suzuki and those who knew
him and anything else DC feels like - originally a site for
Crooked
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Zen
Mind, Beginner's Mind
in
Ambivalent Zen : One Man's Adventures on the Dharma Path by Lawrence
Shainberg
Shainberg's path is somewhat unusual in that his father introduced him to the writings of Alan Watts, DT Suzuki, Zen friendly psychology, J. Krisnamurti, and others while he was young. As a teenager he went to a workshop in New York City led by Alan Watts and Charlotte Selver, both of whom played a role in Shunryu Suzuki's American life. Richard Baker heard of Suzuki through just such a workshop. Later Shainberg meets Krisnamurti in Ojai. His accounts of practice with other teachers in New York were most interesting to me - Eido Shimano, Soen Nakagawa, Bernie Glassman, and Kyudo Nakagawa whom he studied with the longest and who is an unforgettable character. Shunryu Suzuki came into the picture through Shainberg's reading Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, the account beginning at the bottom of page 83 and continuing on to the next two pages. - dc
check out Shainberg's website
There's a lot of old material that's as good as new if you haven't read it. -DC