Book Club Reading Schedule
ASZC Book Group 2022
Embracing Mind: The Zen Talks of Kobun Chino Otogawa
by Kobun Chino Otogawa
February 26, 2024 - June, 24 2024
Tanjo-e Sesshin
• February 26 p. xxi – 8
Editor’s Notes
1. Something Brought You Here
• March 4 p.9 - 20
2. Why Buddha Left Home
3. Mara
• March 11 p. 21 - 32
4. Finding Yourself
5. Limitless Trust
• March 18 p. 33 - 41
6. Buddha Tathagata
7. Sesshin
Rohatsu Sesshin
• March 25 p. 45 - 54
8. Sitting Practice
• April 1 p. 55 - 66
9. Problems, Pain
• April 8 p. 67 - 82
10. Dogen’s Teaching
11. Body, Mind and Breath Sit
• April 15 p. 83 - 98
12. Different Practices
13. Forgetting Yourself
• April 22 p. 99 - 108
14. Thoughts on Kensho, Faith, Life
Love and Death
Denko-e Sesshin
• April 29 p. 111 - 123
15. Light
16. Listen to the Truth
• May 6 p. 125 - 141
17. Menju: Face to Face Transmission
18. Many Kinds of Transmission
• May 13 p. 143 - 151
19. Mind to Mind
• May 20 p. 153 - 162
20. Facing the World
21. Bodhisattva’s Vow
• May 27 MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY
Nehan-e Sesshin
• June 3 p. 165 - 175
22. Buddha’s Enlightenment and Mankind
23. Sange
• June 10 p. 177 - 189
24. Triple Treasure
25. Three Pure Precepts and the
Prohibitory Precepts
• June 17 p. 191 - 200
26. No Killing Life, No Stealing, No
Attachment to Fulfillment
• June 24 p. 201 - 213
27. No Illusory Words, No selling the Wine of
Delusion, No Dwelling on Past Mistakes, No
Praise or Blame, No Hoarding Materials and
Teachings.
28. No Being Angry, No Abusing the
Triple treasure
Past Reading List
Below are the list of books that have been read and explored in our Monday night discussion group.
Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn - Stephen Mitchell
The Heart of Being - Daido Loori
Nothing Special - Charlotte Joko Beck
Everyday Zen - Charlotte Joko Beck
Ordinary Wonder - Charlotte Joko Beck
No Beginning, No End - Jakusho Kwong-Roshi
Not Always So - Shunryo Suzuki-Roshi
Returning To Silence - Dainin Katagiri-Roshi
Opening The Hand Of Thought - Kosho Uchiyama
From The Zen Kitchen To Enlightenment-Eihei Dogen- Zengi And Kosho Uchiyama-Roshi
The Kyosaku(Archive Volume I) - Rev. Zengaku Soyu Matsuoka-Roshi
The Mind Of Clover- Robert Aitken
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind - Shunryo Suzuki-Roshi
When You Greet Me I Bow - Norman Fischer