…and therefore no longer in this frantic state of disintegration and disgruntlement. I was talking the other day to Suzuki Daisets, Great Dr Suzuki, and he was saying: you know, the western and Christian world has been too much going up and we, he said it…

…following the natural rhythm of your own spontaneous inner life. On the other hand, if you read some of the books by Dr Suzuki or other authorities on Zen, you would gather quite the contrary, that it is an extremely rugged and difficult undertaking. And…

…wood on charcoal and this has one of the most marvelous perfumes in the world. This really is the high forest, and old Dr Suzuki, who was the great authority on Zen Buddhism said the smell of jinko is the smell of Buddhism because they use this…

…different flavor from modern Japanese Zen. And so of course many of the people who go to study Zen in Japan disapprove of Dr Suzuki Thoroughly and also naturally of my exposition of Zen, because we don't make a great fetish of studying Zen by sitting in…

…up on the idea of responding quickly, the idea of quickness will be itself a form of obstruction. Very often when Dr Suzuki is asked a question, a very complicated question by some philosophy major at Columbia when he's giving lectures there, he's silent…

…that's one side. All through the seminar I've been showing you the two sidedness of things. When I gave my autographed book to Dr Suzuki and asked him to put a message in it he wrote the Chinese Characters. Which say buji Nin, a nothing special man.…

…means path, and the buddha taught an eightfold path for the realization of nirvana. This always reminds me of a story about Dr Suzuki, who was, who is a very, very Great Buddhist Scholar and many years ago he was giving a fundamental lecture on Buddhism…

…that you've got hairlines instead of solid black. It so happened that a few days later we were due to receive a visit from Dr Suzuki, the Great Zen Scholar, and I said: I'm going to hang that picture in my office. And the artist said: I hope he won't…

…different flavor from modern Japanese Zen. And so of course many of the people who go to study Zen in Japan disapprove of Dr Suzuki Thoroughly and also naturally of my exposition of Zen, because we don't make a great fetish of studying Zen by sitting in…

…or mahayana Buddhism in general, to Zen in particular. Now Zen plays a little game with you. Whenever anybody like myself or Dr Suzuki talks about Zen, all the other people say: because they talk about it, they don't understand it. Those, in the words of…

…it would be very wrong of me to forge a document and pretend that it was written by some very venerable person, say by Dr Suzuki or by Goethe. But centuries ago both in the west and in the east it was considered quite immoral to publish any book of…