Re: OT: zen for beginners

[Jeff Shirkey <jcshirke@verizon.net>]

On Nov 24, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Raul Bonell wrote:

> guys! may you point me to some good starter Zen book for a young  
> person, an intelligent teenager near 18? easy to understand and  
> adapted to the actual days? maybe some tich naht hanh? i have some  
> watts, suzuki, but i'm not sure about them.. it's for a present.  
> thanks.

It depends on what you want. Do you want a beginning Zen user's manual  
(so to speak)? Or do you want a reliable, historical introduction to  
Zen (or Buddhism generally speaking)--as opposed to all the crap  
that's out there?

Jeff