Word: masters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago lawyer, she dug deeper into Buddhism, decided that what she wanted was enlightenment, and the way to enlightenment was meditation. "But to find out how to practice meditation in America was an impossibility." On a trip to China and Japan in 1930, she and her husband met Zen Master Dr. Daisetz Suzuki, and Ruth asked him how one went about learning to meditate. "If you can come back to Japan and study for some time." he said, "perhaps you can find...
Some of a Zen pupil's meditation is devoted to koans -short problems without logical solutions, set by the individual's Zen master and designed to wrench the mind free of ordinary thinking. (Sample koan: "A monk asked. 'Who is Buddha?' The master answered, 'Three pounds of flax.' ") Other meditation is devoted to breath control, plus a kind of concentration on nothingness and what Ruth Sasaki describes as "handling one's mind...
...greatest painter? Half a century ago, the title would have been disputed among Albrecht Diirer, Lucas Cranach and Hans Holbein the Younger. Now Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born head of the History of Art Department at London University's Birkbeck College, unhesitatingly comes out for the 16th century Gothic master whom critics have long called Matthias Griinewald...
Parents of several Freshmen admitted to Leverett House have offered to help subsidize the soundproofing of the dining hall, the CRIMSON learned yesterday. John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House, stated that there are definite but incomplete plans already drawn up for the project...
...becomes painfully apparent that Yearbook photographers were unable to cover the year's events adequately. If an activity receives several pages of pictures, it means that a photographer happened to be present, rather than that the activity deserved extended coverage. For example, there are three photographs for The Master Builder, including one of a page and a half, and none of the Hasty Pudding Show...