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...increasing among the Japanese. But instead of setting up psychiatric care for their executives and workers, the corporations have begun subsidizing group trips to Zen temples for sessions of meditation. Mishima saw this coming a decade ago. Writing about the Japanese way of thinking, he concluded that it is Buddhism, with its conviction that existence is a transitory and basically unessential phenomenon, that keeps the Japanese off the analysts' couches...
...Jazzman Herbie Hancock's Beverly Hills house, a brand-new $2,800 Arp 2600 three-oscillator synthesizer sits right next to his Butsudan altar. "There are no miracles in Buddhism, but chanting has never failed," says Herbie. "You can do it if you have a problem, or if you want something to happen or not happen. It's you you are chanting to. It's just like adding fire to yourself." Hancock began chanting two years ago. As a convert to the Buddhist sect known in the U.S. as Nichiren Shoshu of America, he would light...
...Cambodian government and people love peace and have always wanted to live quietly. They would like to deal as friends and equals with all the peoples of the world. They believe in Buddhism, a religion fortified with pacifism and humanism, and they neither menace nor threaten anyone. But they will not tolerate aggression against them...
...Phaedrus, East met West in a synthesis of Buddhism's ideas on the pursuit of excellence and those of the French mathematician-philosopher Jules Henri Poincare, who in Foundations of Science (1902) claimed that the underlying reality was not to be found in solid objects but in the harmonious order of the objects. Phaedrus called this unobservable order "Quality" and spent years trying to convince his teachers, and later his students, that it was the missing link that would close the subject-object gap and the schism between classic and romantic, between art and technology. Whether...
Janwillem van de Wetering sailed for Japan by freighter in the summer of 1958. He was 27, and a misfit in the bustling Dutch society. He had read a few books on Buddhism, and, he writes, he wanted to find a door he could knock on: "a real door, made of wood, with a live man behind it who would say some thing I could hear." Japan, he knew, had living masters who would accept disciples. So did India and Ceylon, but he had heard stories of young Westerners who wandered aimlessly about in these places, eventually dying of dysentery...