Essays in Zen Buddhism
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Essays in Zen Buddhism is by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, who is described as Professor of Zen Buddhism at Otani Buddhist College, Kyoto, and the volume is marked as the first series. An essay headed Practical Methods of Zen Instruction asks “What is Zen?” and says that Zen refuses even tentatively to be defined or described in any manner.
A monk asks Jōshu where one thing abides, and the master replies, “It is windy again this morning.” Bokuju is asked by a monk about the doctrine that goes beyond the Buddhas and Fathers, and the master, holding up his staff, says to the congregation, “I call this a staff, and what would you call it?” The text says that the Buddha’s entrance into Nirvana meant to his disciples the loss of the World-Light. The writer gives as his thesis that Zen aims at the opening of satori, or at acquiring a new point of view as regards life and the universe.
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- Author
- Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
- Reading time
- About 10 hours
- Pages
- 294
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Philosophy
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