Word: suzuki
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...Downing begins in 1961, when Shunryu Suzuki, a quirky but brilliant monk in Japan's Soto Zen lineage, hung out a shingle in one of San Francisco's bohemian neighborhoods offering instruction in zazen. Unlike Rinzai Zen, which uses intellectual methods like koans to free the mind from itself, Soto Zen has few features that are susceptible to coffeehouse dilettantism. Zazen, the Soto school's central practice, is a unique method of wordless, thoughtless "just sitting," in which the mind seeks to become as empty as a puddle reflecting a cloudless sky. It is demanding, frustrating...
...BUSINESS, March 11]. He is unrestrained without being vulgar, brilliant without being patronizing and critical without being cruel. I've laughed every time I've seen him being wacky and cried every time I've seen him in one of his "sappy roles." He can do it all. MARILLYN SUZUKI-DAY Silver Spring...
...What's impressive about Oyamada is for the amount of creative risks he takes, his records still end up selling," says Kazuo Suzuki, a professor at the Tokyo School of Music, who directed Flipper's Guitar's radio shows in the late 1980s. "Like those free headphones he included in the initial pressing of Fantasma. He's certainly no businessman?more like a record company's worst nightmare." Actually, he could become a music mogul's dream: the guy has moved 300,000 units worldwide and looks ready to break...
...There's a joke making the rounds in Tokyo these days. Mr. Suzuki goes to his local bank branch, rents a safety deposit box and locks away some cash. The next day he comes back and takes some money out. He does this again and again. Finally an exasperated bank manager asks, "Suzuki-san, why don't you open a bank account...
...Suzuki-san responds: "I'd love to. What collateral are you offering...