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While the founder [of any religious or spiritual system] was still walking among his followers and d...

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Essays in Zen Buddhism

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir...

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God against man. Man against God. Man against nature. Nature against man. Nature against God. God ag...

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Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fa...

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The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk

When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into t...

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The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with...

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Zen and Japanese Culture

To speak conventionally - and I think it is easier for the general reader to see Zen thus presented ...

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An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

The idea of Zen is to catch life as it flows. There is nothing extraordinary or mysterious about Zen...

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An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

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D. T. Suzuki

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Born: 1870-10-18

Died: 1966-07-12

Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (鈴木 大拙 Suzuki Daisetsu, October 18, 1870 – July 12, 1966) was a famous Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen and Shin that were instrumental in spreading interest in both Zen and Shin (and Far Eastern philosophy in general) to the West. Suzuki was also a prolific translator of Chinese, Japanese, and Sanskrit literature.More