What Next?

My study/reference library contains the following:

• Three Chan Classics (Cleary)
• The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature (Poceski)
• Book of Serenity (Cleary)
• Two Zen Classics (Sekida)
• The Record of Tung-Shan (Powell)
• The Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu (Green)
• The Way of the Bodhisattva
• The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma (Pine)
• Stopping & Seeing (Cleary)
• An Introduction to Zen Buddhism (DT Suzuki)
• Manual of Zen Buddhism (DT Suzuki)
• The Zen Doctrine of No-Mind (DT Suzuki)
• The Lankavatara Sutra (Pine)
• The Awakening of Faith (Hakeda, Asvasgosa)
• The Platform Sutra (Pine)
• The Diamond Sutra (Pine)
• The Heart Sutra (Pine)
• The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-chi (Watson)
• The Five Houses of Zen (Cleary)
• Transmission of Light (Cleary)
• Instant Zen (Cleary)
• The Measuring Tap (Cleary)
• The Sutra of Hui-Neng (Cleary)
• Zen Lessons (Cleary)
• The Blue Cliff Record (Cleary & Cleary)
• Zen Master Yunmen (App)
• Cultivating the Empty Field (Leighton)
• Soto Zen Ancestors in China (Mitchell)
• The Zen Teaching of Huang Po (Blofeld)
• Zen Flesh, Zen Bones (Reps & Senzaki)
• The Sayings of Layman P'ang (Green)
• Zen and Zen Classics v. 1 - 5 (Blyth)

And I'm considering what to get next from this short list:

• Master Ma's Ordinary Mind (Yamada)
• Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (Cleary)
• Teachings of Zen (Cleary)
• Zen Under the Gun (Cleary)
• The Bodhidharma Anthology (Broughton)
• Swampland Flowers (Cleary)

Any advice on what to get, what to avoid, or what to prioritize (or if I've missed anything!) would be much appreciated! I have a few more books in my digital collection, but my physical collection - listed above - is very much the heart of my library. Assume that I've read and/or referenced extensively most of the titles that I already have.

Thanks in advance for your opinions and insights!

Submitted June 30, 2022 at 08:24PM by DarkKindness https://ift.tt/6ap0KZe