Book List

Zen:

• One Straw Revolution – Masanobu Fukuoka (Larry Korn translation)
• The Way of Zen – Alan Watts
• Hsin Hsin Ming – Seng-ts’an (Eric Putkonen translation)
• The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are – Alan Watts
• Tao: The Watercourse Way – Alan Watts
• The Way of Chuang Tzu – Thomas Merton
• The Unfettered Mind – Takuan Soho (William Scott Wilson translation)
• Bankei Zen – Peter Haskel
• Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind – Shunryu Suzuki
• Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu (Stephen Mitchell translation)
• Book of Lieh Tzu (Lionel Giles translation)
• Basho: The Complete Haiku (Jane Reichhold translation)

The other translations of Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu) to fully grasp his meaning:

• The Complete Works Of Chuang Tzu – Burton Watson
• The Chuang Tzu – Lutang Yin

Extended List:

• The Zen Teachings of Master Lin Chi – Burton Watson
• Joyous Cosmology – Alan Watts
• Zen in the Art of Archery – Eugen Herrigel
• Zen Bow, Zen Arrow – John Stevens

Also read everything about the following Zen Masters:

• Bodhidharma
• Huike
• Sengcan
• Daoxin
• Farong
• Hongren
• Huineng

Strategy:

• Discourses on Livy – Machiavelli (Oxford’s World’s Classics)
• The Art of War – Sun Tzu
• A Book of Five Rings – Miyamoto Musashi
• Tao of Jeet Kune Do – Bruce Lee (warning: large file size)
• The Art of War – Machiavelli
• Seven Pillars of Wisdom – T.E. Lawrence

Also read everything you can about:

• Napoleon
• Patton
• Takeda Shingen
• T.E. Lawrence

Listening List

Zen:

• Every talk by Alan Watts that you can find on the internet.

Watch List

Strategy:

• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• Patton (1970)

Recent History:

• Bitter Lake – Adam Curtis
• Hypernormalization – Adam Curtis