This is a little known edition of a work originally published in 1950 and 1972. The author was a pioneer in bringing Zen to the West. On these pages, Suzuki uses many lively and vivid stories and koans to illustrate Zen's emphasis on the eternal now, its embrace of paradox, and its preference for personal experience over logic and concepts. The student of Zen must accept the confusions of life or what practitioners call "seven trippings and eight tumblings." Living by Zen opens up new doors of appreciation for this ancient and practical way of life.