This may also be a good time to repost links to "Readings on How to Read Zen/Buddhist" books, discussing how Buddhist books ... and Zen books in particular ... come in many lovely flavors (
same but often very different different, different but just the same). Some of these readings sometime paint with too broad a brush, and are not completely accurate, but still useful to Zen readers who may pick up a book on "Zen" or "Buddhism" and not realize that the authors are often coming from quite different perspectives and approaches on "Zen" etc. (many roads up the non-mountain mountain).
SPECIAL READING - EIGHT TYPES OF ENLIGHTENMENT
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...-enlightenment
SPECIAL READING - ONCE BORN TWICE BORN ZEN (Part 1)
https://sites.google.com/site/jundot...edirects=0&d=1
Perhaps the best book on all the many lineages and flavors of Zen in the West (although the book is already a few years dated and too limited to the USA) is James Ford's
Zen Master Who? (Look for Jundo Cohen on page 140, pre-Treeleaf days! plug plug ) ...
http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Master-Who...zen+master+who
SweepingZen webpage has become the best source of biographies and interviews with Zen teachers in the West in all their many flavors ...
www.sweepingzen.com
Gassho, J