Taken from the speeches that Suzuki-roshi kept to their students, this book 'written evidence of a great man, who, with her sweetness, its simplicity', its hot humanity ', his humor, and' unable to communicate with Western, in a Western language, the inner meaning of Zen, thus intervene 'between the protagonists of the encounter between East and West, contemporary religious, along with Alan Watts, Krishnamurti, Chogyam Trungpa, etc. .. But the most 'striking a man so' great was his "ordinariness" that simple natural and spontaneous that made him among the men and they did not directly touch the heart, the capacity 'of living things always with new eyes, and that he 'tried to communicate throughout the book and what he calls "beginner's mind." Without ever resorting to complicated philosophical terms and references of an intellectual, Suzuki-roshi had the gift to show how intimately in which the Zen feel and live the reality 'talking about the simple things of everyday life. It 's why his speeches are not defined in any way, are neither' philosophy it 'poetry, since' the "vehicle" through which Suzuki-roshi communicate with us and 'something that can not' split in feeling and thought since contuiene them both. It 's a way of being, and' - the teacher would say - Zen.
(Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, Ubaldini )
My opinion: I have always looked with suspicion books that speak of Zen. Groped to "explain" the Zen you away from Zen. However, this text of Suzuki-roshi and 'one of the few books that allow you to approach due to its simplicity,' the curious to a greater understanding of what is Zen itself.
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