Okay, no pop-up Zen books, but:
Zen Shorts, by Jon J. Muth
I first becamse aware of Muth as a late seventies/early eighties comic book artist. He is the author of this children's book featuring a Zen master panda named Stillwater who shares Zen and Taoist tales with children.
The Tao of Pooh, by Benjamin Hoff
The follow-up, Te of Piglet, is very political, extremely dated and therefore utterly forgettable (in my opinion), but Tao of Pooh is a classic. It is also now, I think, the only place you can find the original, pre-Disney illustrations from Milne's children's books.
The Perfect Zen Companion, featuring teachings by Seung Sahn
This is the book I totally didn't get when I first read it, then one day, months later, ping! Suddenly it made sense. He's da man. Well, now he's dead. But he was da man. A posthumous book of his teachings, "Seeking Enlightenment is a Big Mistake!" is due out next month.
And, as always, anything by Alan Watts. Also dead, also da man.
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A must read for tortured souls:
"Bring Me the Rhinoceros" by John Tarrant
Like most books on Zen, it includes humor. The main reason I like Zen is because of the little laugh here and there.
Christianity doesn't chuckle and heaven isn't funny anymore.
--dzaster
There is actually a pop-up Zen book:
Fishing for the Moon and Other Zen Stories: a Pop-up
It's cheapest on Amazon. It has stories featured in Nyogen Sazaki and "The Blue Cliff Record".
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