Word: zen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saturday evening of a hard campaign week, and the candidate is tired. His expressive hands play with thick budgetary studies by the Brookings Institution that lie on the coffee table before him. Scattered at his feet are books that he has had little time for recently: Thomas Merton on Zen, Arnold Toynbee on the future, Idries Shah on Sufi parables. As the twilight fades, the soothing voice of Judy Collins drifts through the room from the hi-fi in the corner: " 'Cause she's touched your perfect body with her mind...
...Trips. Individualism may be on the rise, however, now that more and more Japanese corporations are discarding their traditional paternalism. Tensions and anxiety are certainly 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...
...Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Pirsig
...that confluence more needed than in psychology, which he contends has been too narrowly confined by the behaviorists and the positivists. He wants to return to the broader preoccupation with consciousness and subconsciousness shared by earlier thinkers, including his idol William James. The road back has led Ornstein to Zen and the I Ching...
...blatantness of Pirsig's borrowings, his Americanizing of Aristotle and the Zen archer will appear vulgar to some readers. To me the borrowings are signs of a vital writer, maybe a myth-maker. The "good mechanic" resonates in my own experience; he brings to mind a good friend, a mechanic and scientist...