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Cuke.com — David Chadwick's vast and sprawling website pays an on-going tribute both to Shunryu Suzuki and to Zen in America through hundreds of useful links, articles, interviews and rare photographs. Crooked Cucumber — Suzuki's biography, by David Chadwick, is a chronicle of Zen practice being planted into American soil, of San Francisco in the 60's, of what Zen actually is, and much more.
John Tarrant — as Suzuki brought Zen practice to America, Tarrant brings us koan work. A repository of his shorter writing is at Pacific Zen Institute, and his book, Bring Me the Rhinoceros, embodies koan work; it's not about waking up; it actually provides the experience of waking up. It's a can-opener for the mind. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . and Spring. This Korean film took me into the heart of the process of seeing through delusions. You can rent it from NetFlix.

Any of Alan Watts' books might lay groundwork for you, too. The first book I ever read about Eastern thought turns out to have been Watts' own favorite of all the many he wrote: Nature, Man and Woman. Still — fifty years after its release — a great place to begin. Kinda sexy too, in a philosophical way.

 D.T. Suzuki (no relation to Shunryu) laid the philosophical groundwork for Zen, explaining the principles so that Westerners could get a bead on it. This new documentary DVD, A Zen Life, is a good introduction.
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