Zen Meditation: Plain and Simple

by Albert Low

Book Overview

First published by Tuttle in 1989 as An Invitation to Practice Zen , Zen Meditation Plain and Simple has gone on to sell nearly 20,000 copies. Now, with a new preface and updated instructional... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804832110
• ISBN13: 9780804832113
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Albert Low is my guru

I read Zen and the Sutras in 2002. This was a book I picked up in Chicago's Chinatown. I have bought it three times since and given it away twice. NEVER disappointed by Mr Low This is worth 100 times what you buy it for. Accurate, experienced, honest and humble. Blessings

Nice little primer

Zen Meditation: Plain and Simple is an excellent little primer on how to sit in zazen. Also covered are the basics of Buddhism and Zen. The instructions are easy to understand, and the explanations are concise if slighly dry. The only drawback is that the pictures showing the positions are in black and white, and the model is wearing dark clothing and socks. This makes it very difficult to tell the difference between the Lotus and Half Lotus positions if you don't already know. The book stresses persistance, and that "anything brought up by zazen can be solved in zazen". It is a simple, fairly undogmatic approach to the practice of meditation.