•Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. New York, Weathermill, 1970. A classic.

•Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones.Tuttle, 1998.

•Yoka Daïshi (comments by Taisen Deshimaru), Sho Do Ka, le chant de l'immédiat satori. Paris, Albin Michel.

•Dainin Katagiri, Returning to silence. Minnesota Zen Meditation Center, 1988. Excellent.

•Dainin Katagiri, You have to say something. Shambhala, 2000. Excellent.

•Taisen Deshimaru, Le bol et le bâton, 120 contes zen. Paris, Albin Michel, 1986.

•Taisen Deshimaru, La Pratique du Zen. Paris, Albin Michel. Traditional texts (the Hokyo Zan Mai and the San Do Kai), with comments by Deshimaru.

•Taisen Deshimaru, L'Esprit du Ch'an. Paris, Albin Michel, 2000 (1976). Deshimaru translates and comments the Shin Jin Mei.

•Tsai Chih Chung, Zen speaks. New York, Doubleday, 1994.

•Tsai Chih Chung, Wisdom of the Zen Masters. New York, Anchor books, 1998. The sequence of Zen Speaks.

•Philip Kapleau, Three Pillars of Zen. New York, Harper and Row, 1965.