Living Zen

First read this book in 1976 and am still reading it. Because I come from an Ivy League intellectual background I have found that the intellectual approach to Zen worked best for me. When I first read it, almost 30 years ago, I had a major spiritual awakening. I "got it" while reading this book, in a moment I will never forget. Now I read it from time to time just to enjoy it. If you are an educated Westerner this is the best source of Zen for you. Read this book.

This is the most helpful, complete, and well-written book on Zen I have ever read. I first read it a couple of months ago, and I continually return to it to re-read chapters, gaining deeper levels of understanding.

Living Zen lives up to its title- a book 'alive' with 'presence and soul'. I would highly recommend this book to anyone curious to go beyond any particular religion or system. Linssen's ideas are not a nebulous form of zen 'instruction' but rather a concrete expression of the connection between physics, science, psychology, biology. This book is the most 'complete' book I have ever read.

A good description of what Zen is about. He uses analogies with scientific principles of chemistry and physics to help explain the teachings of Zen. I recommend it to the scientifically trained.