Zen and the Art of Insight

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Summary: The Prajnaparamita applied to life in our world
Review: I'm reading this for the second time because every page is full of light. Thomas Cleary's personal voice comes through in his commentaries as never before. He brings together translations from diverse schools, using selections from one to clarify selections from another. His own commentaries draw on personal understanding of human relations in the working world. Because this book showed Cleary's own maturity, and referred to The Flower Ornament Scripture, his immense translation from the eighties, I bought that massive volume. I now see that Cleary's translations carry the weight of years of study and practice. He has the power to bring the Dharma to more people than all the American Zen "masters" on the continent. This is certainly not a good choice if it's your first foray into Buddhism or Zen, but if you're committed to a practice and want a book to read one page at a time, daily, this, as Alan Watts would have said, is It.