Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shenryu Suzuki - Hardcover

Chadwick, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0767901045 ISBN 13: 9780767901048

Publisher: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Del, 1999

Synopsis

A biography of the Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher and author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind highlights his influence on San Francisco's hippie movement of the 1960s and features excerpts from his unpublished lectures on spirituality. $40,000 ad/promo.

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Review:

"Suzuki left a lasting legacy as the man who introduced the spiritual discipline of Zen to the West . . . and Crooked Cucumber affords a wonderful opportunity to meet him."
--Los Angeles Times

"A generous glimpse of the humanity and message of one of the great spiritual teachers of the modern world."
--Publishers Weekly

"A moving and eloquent biography of that quiet man who was to become the most widely revered Zen teacher in this country. Conveying his spirit lovingly and well, it becomes in itself a wonderful manifestation of his gentle teachings."
--Peter Matthiessen, author of At Play in the Fields of the Lord and The Snow Leopard

"It's impossible to imagine a better book about Suzuki-roshi. Its precise picture of Suzuki's values, hopes, and problems makes it a major primer of Zen itself."
--Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

"A touching account of Suzuki-roshi's life, full of funny stories, brave and generous."
--Robert Bly, author of Iron John and The Sibling Society

"Shunryu Suzuki comes to life through these pages to a degree I would not have thought possible. Chadwick has produced a remarkable biography of a truly remarkable man."
--Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions

From the Back Cover:

Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic 'Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind.' This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in 'Crooked Cucumber'. To create his intimate and engrossing narrative, David Chadwick draws on Suzuki’s own words and the memories of his students, friends and family, interspersed with previously unpublished passages from Suzuki’s talks and correspondence.

“It is impossible to imagine a better book about Suzuki Roshi. Its precise picture of Suzuki’s values, hopes and problems could make it a major primer of Zen itself.”
ROBERT PIRSIG, author of 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'

“Shunryu Suzuki comes to life through these pages to a degree I would not have thought possible. Chadwick has produced a remarkable biography of a truly remarkable man.”
HUSTON SMITH, author of 'The World’s Religions'

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Del
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0767901045
• ISBN 13: 9780767901048
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432