No Beginning, No End The Intimate Heart of Zen

JAKUSHO KWONG is a successor in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi. He has been teaching Zen in the United States and Europe for more than thirty years. He is the founder and abbot of the Sonoma Mountain Zen Center outside of Santa Rosa, California. In 1995 he was given the title of Dendo Kyoshi, Zen teacher, by the Soto School in Japan. He is one of nine Western Zen teachers to receive this acknowledgment. "Zen," he says, "is the aliveness we bring to each moment." PETER LEVITT is the author ofFingerpainting on the Moon: Writing and Creativity as a Path to Freedom(forthcoming from Harmony Books). His eight books of poetry includeOne Hundred ButterfliesandBright Root, Dark Root. He is also the editor ofThe Heart of Understandingby Thich Nhat Hanh. Peter has been practicing Zen for many years and has been a student of Jakusho Kwong's since 1983.Roshi, Jakusho Kwong is the author of 'No Beginning, No End The Intimate Heart of Zen', published 2003 under ISBN 9780609610800 and ISBN 0609610805.