Appendices To Part Ii. X. From Saichi's Journals : p. 174 X. FROM SAICHI'S JOURNALS THE FOLLOWING are translations in English of some of Saichi's utterances. As I have said before, there are several thousands of such items in his journals, and there is no doubt that they are good material for students of religious experiences. My attempt here is...
Title Page : MYSTICISM CHRISTIAN AND BUDDHIST BY DAISETZ TEITARO SUZUKI (Volume Twelve Of The World Perspectives Series) New York; Harper & Brothers Publishers [1957] NOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION Scanned , October 2004. Proofed By John Bruno Hare. This Text Is In The Public Domain In The United States Because It W...
Preface : p. vii 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...
Section Two. Vii. Kono Mama : p. 141 SECTION TWO p. 143 VII. KONO-MAMA ("I AM THAT I AM" 1) I THE RELIGIOUS consciousness is awakened when we encounter a network of great contradictions running through our human life. When this consciousness comes to itself we feel as if our being were on the verge of a total collapse. We...
Appendices To Part I. V. Transmigration : p. 115 APPENDICES V. TRANSMIGRATION DOES Buddhism teach transmigration? If it does, how does it work? Does the soul really transmigrate? Such questions are frequently asked, and I will try briefly to answer them here. I The idea of transmigration is this: After death, the soul migrates from one...
Appendices To Part I. Vi. Crucifixi : p. 129 VI. CRUCIFIXION AND ENLIGHTENMENT I WHENEVER I see a crucified figure of Christ, I cannot help thinking of the gap that lies deep between Christianity and Buddhism. This gap is symbolic of the psychological division separating the East from the West. The individual ego asserts itself...
Untitled : MYSTICISM, CHRISTIAN AND BUDDHIST BY DAISETZ TEITARO SUZUKI [1957, Copyright Not Renewed] This is a study of Buddhist mysticism, contrasted and compared with Christian mysticism, particularly the writings of Meister Eckhart. Suzuki explores Buddhist and Christian concepts of infinity, eternity...
Section One. Meister Eckhart And Buddhism : p. 3 I. MEISTER ECKHART 1 AND BUDDHISM I 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 Mahyna Buddhism, especially of Zen Buddhism. The attempt is only a tentative and sketchy one, far from being systematic...
Section One. Iii. 'a Little Point' And Satori : p. 76 III. "A LITTLE POINT" AND SATORI I MEISTER ECKHART is quoted in Inge's "Mysticism in Religion" (p. 39): The union of the soul with God is far more inward than that of the soul and body.... Now, I might ask, how stands it with the soul that is lost in God? Does the soul find herself or not...
Appendices To Part Ii. Ix. Rennyo's Letter : p. 167 IX. RENNYO'S LETTERS "THE LETTERS" are those written by Rennyo Shnin (1415-1499) to his followers. He was one of the greatest teachers of the Shin school of Buddhism; in fact it was he who laid the firm foundation for the modern religious institution known as the Jdo-Shin Shu, the True Sect...
Section One. Ii. The Basis Of Buddhist Philosophy : p. 36 II. THE BASIS OF BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY I BUDDHIST philosophy is based on the experience Buddha had about twenty-five centuries ago. To understand, therefore, what Buddhist philosophy is, it is necessary to know what that experience was which Buddha had after six years' hard thinking...
Appendices To Part Ii. Viii. Notes On 'namu : p. 161 APPENDICES VIII. NOTES ON "NAMU-AMIDA-BUTSU" THE ULTIMATE goal of the teaching of the Pure Land is to understand the meaning of "Nembutsu"," whereby its followers will be admitted into the Pure Land. In the "Nembutsu", contradictions dissolve and are reconciled in "the steadfastness...
Section One. Iv. Living In The Light Of Eternity : p. 93 IV. LIVING IN THE LIGHT OF ETERNITY I ETERNITY is, as a philosopher defines it, "an infinite extent of time, in which every event is future at one time, present at another, past at another." 1 This is an interesting definition no doubt, but what is "infinity"? "No beginning and no end?" Wh...
