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If the Western world knows anything about Zen Buddhism, it is down to the efforts of one remarkable man, D.T. Suzuki. The twenty-seven year-old Japanese scholar first visited the West in 1897, and over the course of the next seventy years became the world's leading authority on Zen. His radical and penetrating insights earned him many disciples, from Carl Jung to Allen Ginsberg, from Thomas Merton to John Cage. In Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist Suzuki compares the teachings of the great Christian mystic Meister Eckhart with the spiritual wisdom of Shin and Zen Buddhism. By juxtaposing cultures that seem to be radically opposed, Suzuki raises one of the fundamental questions of human experience: at the limits of our understanding is there an experience that is universal to all humanity? Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist is a book that challenges and inspires; it will benefit readers of all religions who seek to understand something of the nature of spiritual life.… (mais)
Mysticism Christian and Buddhist
The greatest living authority on the mystical qualities of Oriental and Christian religions is Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. In this comparative study, Mr. Suzuki shows how Zen and Shin Buddhism of the East and the Christian mysticism of Meister Eckhart meet on common ground. He demonstrates that the superficial differences between these faiths are less significant than their basic similarities. The last part of the book offers a remarkable selection of writings from Japanese mystics.
Mr. Suzuki, born in Japan, has taught in universities of the United States and Europe, as well as in his native land. This thoughtful and lucid book will be of profound interest to all who seek a deeper understanding not only of religion but of life itself.
Contents
Preface
Section One
1 Meister Eckhart and Buddhism
2 The basis of Buddhist philosophy
3 'A little point' and satori
4 LIving in the light of eternity
Appendices
5 Transmigration
6 Crucifixion and enlightenment
Section Two
7 Kono-mama ('I am that I am')
Appendices
8 Notes on 'Namu-amida-butsu'
9 Rennyo's letters
10 From Saichi's Journals
Epilogue
In the first four essays in this collection, D. T. Suzuki reads Meister Eckhart with the eye of a master, pointing out where his understanding deeply coincides with that of Zen Buddhism. Next, he takes on a subject Christians often find difficult, the question of transmigration or reincarnation. Suzuki then compares the dimensionality of the crucifixion with that of enlightenment. In the later essays, Suzuki moves on to the Pure Land tradition of Buddhism, and in particular to the works of Rennyo (1415-1499) and the poetry of Asahara Saichi (1850-1932), for which he provides a rare translation
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
PREFACE This book has no pretension to be a thorough, systematic study of the subject. It is more or less a collection of studies the author has written from time to time in the course of his readings, especially of Meister Eckhart as representative of Christian mysticism. For Eckhart’s thoughts come most closely to those of Zen and Shin.
1 MEISTER ECKHART AND BUDDHISM In the following pages I attempt to call the reader’s attention to the closeness of Meister Eckhart’s way of thinking to that of Mahayana Buddhism, especially of Zen Buddhism.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
We generally think that philosophy is a matter of pure intellect, and, therefore, that the best philosophy comes out of a mind most richly endowed with intellectual acumen and dialectical subtleties. But this is not the case. It is true that those who are poorly equipped with intellectual powers cannot be good philosophers. Intellect, however, is not the whole thing. There must be a deep power of imagination, there must be a strong, inflexible will-power, there must be a keen insight into the nature of man, and finally there must be an actual seeing of the truth as synthesised in the whole being of the man himself.
The function of the intellect consists in leading the mind to a higher field of consciousness by proposing all sorts of questions which are beyond itself. The mystery is solved by living it, by seeing into its working, by actually experiencing the significance of life, or by tasting the value of living.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
I hate, I love, I crave – How wretched, how wretched I am!
If the Western world knows anything about Zen Buddhism, it is down to the efforts of one remarkable man, D.T. Suzuki. The twenty-seven year-old Japanese scholar first visited the West in 1897, and over the course of the next seventy years became the world's leading authority on Zen. His radical and penetrating insights earned him many disciples, from Carl Jung to Allen Ginsberg, from Thomas Merton to John Cage. In Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist Suzuki compares the teachings of the great Christian mystic Meister Eckhart with the spiritual wisdom of Shin and Zen Buddhism. By juxtaposing cultures that seem to be radically opposed, Suzuki raises one of the fundamental questions of human experience: at the limits of our understanding is there an experience that is universal to all humanity? Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist is a book that challenges and inspires; it will benefit readers of all religions who seek to understand something of the nature of spiritual life.
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