Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Good quote. It sounds like the kind of text i'd be interested in, I placed an order this afternoon. Thanks!

"Tent Posts" by Henri Michaux is a mind blower.

"Art Theorems" by Bruno Munari is great.

"The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate" by Peter Brook

Closer to our usual topic:

"Warrior of Zen: The Diamond-Hard Wisdom Mind of Suzuki Shosan" translated by Arthur Braverman

Is an inspiring and thought provoking book. It even has some shakuhachi content, in that Shosan discusses Fuke.

These books have all provided me with a lot of ideas over the years. I keep coming back to them.

Wild: An Elemental Journey (2006) by Jay Griffiths for an intense, poetic, and sometimes hazardous journey through wild lands such as the Amazon region, the Arctic, West Papua, Australian deserts, and Outer Mongolia, as well as an exploration of the vocabulary we use to describe wildernesses, and The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples (2001), by Tim Flannery, if you've ever wondered about plant and animal immigration to the New World over the last 60 million years, the effects of Ice Ages, the rise and fall of the Aztecs and other native peoples, faunal and floral interchange between Eurasia and North America following 1492, and what we have done and are doing to the American 'frontier' now.

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For me,

"The Unfettered Mind" by Takuan Soho

Gishin wrote:

The Zen teachings of Bodhidharma. The cleanest book on Zen from my point of view even if it was not written or even spoke by Bodhidharma himself

Gishin,
Is that the Red Pine book you are referring to?

Gishin wrote:

madoherty wrote:

Gishin wrote:

The Zen teachings of Bodhidharma. The cleanest book on Zen from my point of view even if it was not written or even spoke by Bodhidharma himself

Gishin,
Is that the Red Pine book you are referring to?

Yes this is the one. If I was to format my brain and only keep one book on Buddhism it would be this one.

Yes it's great. His "Zen Works of Stonehouse" is also superb.

nyokai wrote:

Red Pine (Bill Porter) is great -- a total scholar who's also a totally in-the-world person. I've been lucky enough to perform with him (he sings the stuff in Chinese then reads his English translations) and it was a very cool experience. I've been reading his Heart Sutra translation recently.

I have to say I recommend all his books including the heart sutra one. But I feel his Heart sutra book is a bit too heavy to digest for most people I feel that the book written by Kuei-Chi on the heart sutra was the cleanest I have seen. But anyhow his heart sutra book is quite complete and has all that one needs to grasp the essence of the heart sutra where it comes from and all the concepts around it so both his book and the Kuei-Chi version are the best on the market in my opinion.

Red Pine also made a translation of the Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching), with very informed commentaries, from both Daoists and Buddhists.

Nyokai, would you like to tell us more about him, from your experience? Would love to hear it.

On another topic, one of my favourite books which is worth reading several times is "Ethnogenesis and the Biosphere" by Lev Gumilev. Seems not popular in the West but a great work.

Justin
http://senryushakuhachi.com/

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YuccaBruce wrote:

Toss them all aside and find out for yourself-J.Krishnamurti

I was just thinking about listing my favorite Krishnaji book.

If by "new perspectives" you mean the extraction of "false" views:

Total Freedom, by Jiddu Krishnamurti