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...noises your animal makes; feel as it feels; think as it thinks; eat as it eats"), part Vic Tanny ("Hang a tether ball on a nail; punch it; punch, punch, punch"). She is a sort of Reader's Digest to the world's philosophies, dipping briefly into Zen, Yoga, evangelism, estheticism and existentialism. She dips as well, unfortunately, into sheer medical foolishness, instructs readers in search of momentary relief from irritation to plunge their faces into bowls filled with ice water, their legs simultaneously into steaming hot vats...
...priority bears an important relationship to many other movements and systems besides existentialism. The elimination of the self-other split suggests various Oriental philosophies. In conjunction with James's discussion of mystical states, in fact, radical empiricism provides a good model for describing satori, the goal of Zen Buddhists. Partakers of mescaline, psilocybin, and other psychedelic drugs would do well to consult James. His trinitarian scheme reserves a prime position for pre-rational, "transcendental" experiences, yet he refrains from casting away either principles or reason...
...Zen Spirit. Mayuzumi, 34, has already written some highly admired symphonic music (The Nirvana Symphony, Bacchanale) and some chamber work, but Bugaku is his first ballet score. His music, which retains Oriental overtones in an instrumentation for Western musicians (who don't play the hichiriki or the sho), slips in and out of tonality, but Mayuzumi is uncertain about the effect on Western ears. "I cannot say that my music is really Japanese-flavored," he says. "But I am a Buddhist and very interested in Zen philosophy, so I hope some kind of Japanese spirit reflects in my music...
...Suffering begins? As the favorite art form of Zen Buddhist monks, haiku always have a curiously bittersweet quality even at their happiest. This still, sad music is apparent in Takeda's meditations on both joyous and sorrowful feasts of the Christian year. For Good Friday he writes: A Holy Rood...
...swings. Doesn't worry. Good, bad, indifferent .. . Something comes through, writing this way." Durrell can't see it. "Really corny and deeply embarrassing ... and worst of all pretentious," he wrote, and added that he cannot abide "the emptiness of this generation of self-pitying crybabies .. . God or Zen is simply a catchword, as Freud was in our time...