![]() Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness is the first follow-up volume to Suzuki Roshi's important work. ![]() The book became the most successful treatise on Buddhism in English, selling more than one million copies to date. When Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind was published in 1972, it was enthusiastically embraced by Westerners eager for spiritual insight and knowledge of Zen. In a single stroke, the simple sentence cuts through the pervasive tendency students have of getting so close to Zen as to completely miss what it's all about. ![]() Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line of Shunryu Suzuki's classic. "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. ![]() These books can be ordered through San Francisco Zen Center's Online Store. ![]()
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