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The Zen Doctrine of No Mind Paperback – August 1, 1991

by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (Author), Christmas Humphreys (Editor)

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Dedicated largely to the teaching of Hui Neng, this volume covers the purpose and technique of Zen training, and goes further into the depths of Zen than any other work of modern times. Here we find no reliance on scripture or a Savior, for the student isshown how to go beyond thought in order to achieve a state of consciousness beyond duality.

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Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Weiser Books; Reprint edition (August 1, 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0877281823
ISBN-13: 978-0877281825
Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.5 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 25 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #491,951 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #389 in Zen Philosophy (Books)
- #515 in Zen Spirituality
- #1160 in New Age Mysticism (Books)

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Lawrence W. Hawman

UNOBSCURE The Buddha You ARE!

January 16, 2015

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This Book.. Oh how Inconceivably Relevant. If your Destiny is to Study Consciousness, this has the answers that can get you to Insights & Miracles that are Transcendental Existence in this Life. It's 'HOW' (so to speak) to transcend mind; to Intuit THE Escape from enthrallment on Samara. Just recognize that regardless of the verbiage used in this fabulous Work to describe "IT" (even though it is NOT actually an it..), whether "No-Mind", "Emptiness", "Unconscious", or several other terms it uses, they are *synonyms* for your Buddha-Nature, & you CAN Recall IT by Allowing what this work Guides you to, WITHIN THIS! Get it NOW, & One Day, when It Calls, you'll open it like a "Messiah's Handbook", & be AMAZED!

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Joe

Zen demystified, maybe.

February 7, 2014

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No Mind is an attempt to debunk or reverse the belief that the Zen experience is obtained by the practice of meditation, or any practice, that you start and then stop before you go back to your life. The argument is based entirely on research with no reference to the authors personal experience. I believe this is because the original intended audience were educated Buddhists who are guided, and misguided, by doctrine. The book attempts to correct a pervasive misguidance by going back to the source.
However I would not have associated the term "guidance" with ancient Zen literature. It seems to the modern, and probably to the ancient, reader that the Zen Masters deliberately encoded their message to mystify the student and thereby somehow maintain the Zen experience as virtually unattainable.
Refreshingly, starting on page 123, Suzuki addresses this perception directly and sincerely. I personally found this most valuable and unexpected.
I recommend this book if you are prepared to read it over a period of time and allow it to manifest as experience. You can't understand or express Zen directly in words. You can only experience it, however the words somehow cause the experience, and then you understand a little more than before.
I docked a star because I would have liked more of the author and maybe less of the ancients. However for the intended audience I am sure the book is perfect.

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mukunda777

Like Marpa the Translator to the Tibetans

October 11, 2014

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D.T. Suzuki's enduring contribution to Zen Buddhism in the West cannot be emphasized strongly enough. Like Marpa the Translator to the Tibetans, D. T. deserves the title "Bodhisattva to the Western World". All of his writings are worth reading again and again ( as I have been doing for the past forty-five years...and will continue to do until I regain Union). This book on the Sixth Chan Patriarch, Hui Neng, clearly illumines the transition from Indian, "Tathagatha" Chan to Chinese, "Patriarch" Chan with great clarity and power. A "must read" for the serious practitioner of Zen Buddhism and a very fine introduction ( as are all his books) to this most elegant expression of religious endeavor.

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Robert L. Clasen

Don't buy this book.

October 1, 2017

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This book is not in adjustable type but consists in photographed pages. For that reason, I would not recommend it. You cannot change the type or the type size.

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Timothy J. Smith

Zen Doctrine of No Mind

March 6, 2001

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Of all the modern works on Zen, this book is unique. Through careful pacing, D.T. Suzuki generates the state of No Mind in the reader. To read this book is to not only understand it, but to directly contact the Zen Mind. This is not a hip or facile text, but one that stands on its own next to the great Sutras of earlier ages. Read as meditation, and meditating as one reads, this book is a mighty sword. Read for information alone, it will perhaps arouse the desire to meditate and attend to the art of mindfulfness

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James Miller

One Star

August 7, 2017

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DO NOT BUY. Missing pages 1-10!!! so the most important introduction to this book is missing!

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RDP

Bad product

May 16, 2017

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pdf copy, not a kindle edition. Also, many pages missing at the start of the book.

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Zaid Haddad

Five Stars

November 15, 2017

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Can't go wrong with either of the Suzuki's

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