Books by Robert Aitken Roshi

• The Dragon Who Never Sleeps: Verses for Zen Buddhist Practice
  Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1992
• Encouraging Words: Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students
  New York, NY & San Francisco, CA: Pantheon Books, 1993
• The Gateless Barrier: The Wu-Men Kuan (Mumonkan)
  Berkeley, CA: North Point Press, 1991
• The Ground We Share: Everyday Practice, Buddhist and Christian
  Boston, MA & London, England: Shambhala, 1996. (With David Steindl-Rast)
• The Mind of Clover: Essays in Zen Buddhist Ethics
  New York, NY: North Point Press, 1984
• Original Dwelling Place: Zen Buddhist Essays
  Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1997.
• Taking the Path of Zen
  New York, NY: North Point Press, 1982
• The Practice of Perfection: The Paramitas from a Zen Buddhist Perspective
  Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1997
• Zen Master Raven: Sayings and Doings of a Wise Bird
  Boston, MA, Rutland, VT & Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 2002
• A Zen Wave: Basho’s Haiku and Zen
  New York, NY & Tokyo, Japan: Weatherhill, 1978
  
  Other Helpful Books
  
• Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Shunryu Suzuki
  New York, NY & Tokyo, Japan: Weatherhill, 1998
• The Roaring Stream: A New Zen Reader, Nelson Foster & Jack Shoemaker (Ecco Companions)
  Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1996
• The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment, Philip T. Kapleau
  New York, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1989
• Dongshan’s Five Ranks: Keys to Enlightenment, Ross Bolleter
  Wisdom Publications, 2014
• Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life, the Diaries & Letters from Westerbork
  Eva Hoffman
• Sun at Midnight: Muso Soseki
  W.S. Merwin
• Dialogues in a Dream: The life and teachings of Muso Soseki
  Thomas Kirchner