Word: zen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Bach to esoteric jazz. There have been concerts on the Royal Watusi drums, and by the Balinese Gamelan Orchestra. Drama ranges from Eumenides to Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, poetry readings from Robert Frost to Allen (Howl) Ginsberg, lecturers from former Amherst President Alexander Meiklejohn to Alan Watts, expert on Zen Buddhism. Once a week Russian Specialist William Mandel reports for 15 minutes on what Russians are being told by their newspapers and magazines. No cause is too controversial to get a hearing. Example: KPFA gave air time to Congressman Robert Condon to defend himself against charges of being a security...
...mystic at this stage, says Progoff, may seem to an outsider to be "lost in a schizophrenic state." Like a disciple in Zen Buddhism, he is "walking across the proverbial razor's edge . . . On either side is psychosis." But after the blinding flash of enlightenment that Christian mystics call union with the divine, his contact with the world is restored and he can return to his former life, "the same person, but altogether different." Progoff agrees with the author of The Cloud that this ultimate success may regulate "his conduct ao agreeably, both in body and in soul, that...
...Zen is the self-awakening of the formless self," Shinichi Hisimatsu, visiting professor of Zen Buddhism, said last night in Andover Chapel of the Divinity School...
...first of a series of public lectures, Hisimatsu discussed "Philosophical and Religious Aspects of Zen Buddhism," first noting that the more one discusses Zen, the less closely he can communicate an understanding...
However, Hisimatsu noted, our individual selves are always limited and given form by the fact that they are distinguishable from the selves of other people. And true Zen self-consciousness is infinitely pluralistic, in contrast to individualistic, he noted...