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Not a canonical list. Seven Zen books that have actually done work in Andrew H. Housley's practice over the years — Taisen Deshimaru's Ring of the Way, Kosho Uchiyama on Dogen, the plainspoken teachings of Kodo Sawaki, Peter Matthiessen's grief-soaked Himalayan travelogue The Snow Leopard, Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Camus's The Stranger, and John Fante's Ask the Dust. Some from squarely inside the tradition. Two by writers who never sat. All of them, over tim

Take what you need. Andrew H. Housley on the slow, surprisingly difficult Zen practice of taking only what is required — and noticing how much is already here. Five practices for daily life: embracing the present moment, simplifying material possessions, silencing the mind's noise, non-attachment, and finding beauty in the ordinary. With wisdom from Shunryu Suzuki, Dogen, Ikkyu, and Basho. A reflection on abundance, appreciation, and what becomes shareable once you discover y

Death is one of the most universal realities of human existence — and one of the most avoided. Andrew H. Housley on overcoming death anxiety through spiritual practice: Ram Dass on conscious dying, Zen Master Deshimaru on impermanence, the Hindu stages of life, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and traditions — from Toraja Indonesia to Tibetan sky burial to New Orleans jazz funerals — that refuse to hide the dying from the living. A guide to inner work and making peace with what