故事从“冬天的雨夜，在荒郊野外的山区，一个没有手机、没有汽油的孤单女人”开始。
若菱，自名校毕业，拥有令人羡慕的工作，但心中却不时的自问：为什么我不能拥有想要的生活？为什么我不快乐？我该如何当自己生命的主人？ 在一个下雨的冬夜，若菱巧遇一名智慧老者，在与智者数度交谈的过程中，她渐渐填补不快乐、挫败的心灵缺口，寻回最真实勇敢的自我…… 你会不会担心和若菱一样，让身体的疲惫失控于华丽的业绩之中？ 你是否也想遇见在你心中的智慧老者，穿越心事的重重黑纱，遇见全新的自己？

《佛子行三十七颂》，副标题为《菩提行法撮要集萃》，足见本文虽是旨在阐述菩萨道修行方式，却又非面面俱到、巨细靡遗，而是撮其大要、述其梗概而已；另外，所谓的“佛子行”，其藏文原义则是“佛子的实践”，由此可见，本文作者又希望我们在菩萨道方面不要眼高手低、好高骛远，而应重在实践……

我们修身也好，修佛也好，修道也好，总之一个字要“修”。修就是修正，可见我们平时的思想和行为是不正的，需要修正。通过什么方法来修？我们的古人早已为我们总结并实践了一整套方法：通过正身静坐，通过内观返视，通过调整呼吸，就这么简单。
本书为丹道高人李谨伯老先生数十年修道方法的真传，指导人们如何具体修道，以达到健康长寿，开发潜在功能，生发智慧，最终提高生活品质的目的。李谨伯老先生年届九旬依然鹤发童颜，耳聪目明，思维清晰，健步如飞，可见其修道体悟真实不虚。若能按照李老的指导如实去修，也一定会有很大的收获。

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”

So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. In a single stroke, the simple sentence cuts through the pervasive tendency students have of getting so close to Zen as to completely miss what it’s all about. An instant teaching on the first page. And that’s just the beginning.

In the forty years since its original publication, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind has become one of the great modern Zen classics, much beloved, much reread, and much recommended as the best first book to read on Zen. Suzuki Roshi presents the basics—from the details of posture and breathing in zazen to the perception of nonduality—in a way that is not only remarkably clear, but that also resonates with the joy of insight from the first to the last page. It’s a book to come back to time and time again as an inspiration to practice, and it is now available to a new generation of seekers in this fortieth anniversary edition, with a new afterword by Shunryu Suzuki’s biographer, David Chadwick.