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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...
...first of Suzuki's visitors was a charismatic but rudderless young Harvard dropout named Richard Baker. Baker soon became Suzuki's primary student and confidant, and through their combined charms and abilities, the center grew from a shoestring institution with a handful of members and an annual budget of around $2,000 to something of a mini empire. At the height of its popularity and influence in the '70s, Zen Center's assets included a best-selling cookbook, a hugely popular vegetarian restaurant, and Tassajara, the first American Buddhist monastery, located amid rugged, gorgeous forestland 240 km south...
...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...
...Suzuki-san responds: "I'd love to. What collateral are you offering...