Introduction -- Sitting and being yourself. Sharing the feeling -- Concentrating the whole body -- Including everything -- Just to sit as yourself -- Don't try to figure out who you are -- Understanding your mind -- Finding yourself -- Don't put another head on top of your own -- Buddha nature -- The great sages are you yourself -- Being myself in Buddhist robes -- Taking care of yourself -- No self -- Questions about anger and being yourself -- Questions about sitting -- Zen in everyday life. Harmony -- Problems -- Respect -- Humor -- Desire -- Money -- Naturalness -- Your skin is the robe -- Small mind and Buddha mind -- The Garuda's discernment -- Every day is a good day -- The spirt of Zen ethics. Ethics are our nature -- Just being yourself -- Beyond moral rules -- 'I will do it!' -- There is only one way for you to go -- Zazen is precepts -- Great effort -- Ideal and reality -- No rules -- Appendix. The sixteen Bodhisattva precepts. From the editors: The sixteen precepts -- Taking refuge in Buddha -- Three interpretations of the three treasures -- The three collective pure precepts -- The ten prohibitory precepts -- Do not kill -- Do not sell liquor -- Do not become angry -- About Shunryu Suzuki. My husband Shunryu Suzuki (by Mitsu Suzuki) -- Why I came to America -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter sources -- Index -- About the author -- About the editors

"In this long-overdue book from one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the last century, Shunryu Suzuki shares simple, warmhearted teachings on a practice that is fundamentally about becoming yourself. In his inimitable style, filled with humor and insight, Becoming Yourself speaks directly to the newest beginners while also serving as a touchstone and a continual source of inspiration for even the most experienced practitioners and Zen teachers"--