"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 of Shunryu Suzuki's classic. 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 thirty years since its original publication, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind has...

The first in a series about the battle of Dien Bien Phu. Bix, a farm boy, and Chau, a Vietnamese, meet in the south. Chau suggests Bix join the French Foreign Legion and fight for his country. The books finally come together under one volume, Siege at Dien Bien Phu.

This is volume three in a series on the siege at Dien Bien Phu. In this book, Chau learns what it is to be Vietnamese.