{"product_id":"zen-mind-beginners-mind","title":"Zen Mind  Beginner's Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the beginners mind there are many possibilities  but in the experts there are few.  So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. In a single stroke  the simple sentence cuts through the pervasive tendency students have of getting so close to Zen as to completely miss what its all about. An instant teaching on the first page. And thats just the beginning.  In the forty years since its original publication  Zen Mind  Beginners Mind has become one of the great modern Zen classics  much beloved  much reread  and much recommended as the best first book to read on Zen. Suzuki Roshi presents the basicsfrom the details of posture and breathing in zazen to the perception of nondualityin a way that is not only remarkably clear  but that also resonates with the joy of insight from the first to the last page. Its a book to come back to time and time again as an inspiration to practice  and it is now available to a new generation of seekers in this fortieth anniversary edition  with a new afterword by Shunryu Suzukis biographer  David Chadwick.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964474355765,"sku":"ByrdShop_1590308506","price":36.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781590308509.jpg?v=1770462569","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/zen-mind-beginners-mind","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}