/lit/ - Literature

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>>5095394
Definitely Zen. "The Three Pillars of Zen" is a good book to start with, quite informative and you get a feel for the concepts. It's also pragmatic with no bullshit like a lot of intro books (pretty much anything from Alan Watts for example). There's a lot of people talking down on Buddhism here, but I think that's because there's a lot of pop-buddhism and pop-zen in culture today. There's a lot of scientific evidence to back up meditation for, if nothing else, health purposes: concentration, anxiety, etc... I'm reading a pic related about the neurological basis behind Zen meditation (referred to as zazen), it's textbook size, I wouldn't start with it.