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Profile: San Francisco Zen Center

By David Chadwick — 2002

n 1959, a Zen priest named Shunryu Suzuki was sent from Japan to take over Sokoji. While he didn’t deny the significance of intellectual study, his constant teaching was to sit down and follow the breath—to do zazen—and to bring the practice of awakening into one’s daily life.

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The Spirit of Zen: A Way of Life, Work, and Art in the Far East

Alan Watts’s The Spirit of Zen was one of the first books to introduce the basic foundation of Zen Buddhism to English-speaking audiences.

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Alan Watts
1994
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This Is It: And Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

Six revolutionary essays from "the perfect guide for a course correction in life, away from materialism and its empty promise" (Deepak Chopra), exploring the relationship between spiritual experience and ordinary life—and the need for them to coexist within each of us.

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Alan Watts
1973
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The Way of Zen

With a rare combination of freshness and lucidity, Alan Watts delves into the origins and history of Zen to explain what it means for the world today. Watts saw Zen as “one of the most precious gifts of Asia to the world,” and in The Way of Zen he gives this gift to readers everywhere.

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Alan Watts
1999
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