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...Zen Buddhism is growing more chic by the minute. Latest evidence: the summer issue of Chicago Review, which contains nine articles on the subject, a poem, and an excerpt from Zen-loving, "beat" Novelist Jack (On the Road) Kerouac's forthcoming The Dharma Bums. Begins Kerouac: "LET THERE BE BLOWING-OUT AND BLISS FOREVERMORE...
After World War II, Horiuchi made his way to Spokane and Zen Master Takizaki, who had greatly influenced Mark Tobey. His work became an exciting blend of abstraction and traditional Japanese painting. At his best, Horiuchi manages to combine a sense of the mysterious depths of an ancient heritage (often suggested by weathered scraps decorated with archaic Japanese calligraphy) with moody, grey and color-flecked images of Pacific landscape, mists and rain. Having attained a point of equipoise between East and West, Horiuchi's goal is "to impart something of the peace and serenity of an Eastern memory into...
...distinguishing mark of such leading Pacific Northwest painters as Mark Tobey, Morris Graves and Kenneth Callahan is their ability to mix Zen with zest, give an Oriental slant to their Western vision. Now a major new artistic talent, who arrived at the East-West meeting point by a different route, has appeared among them. The newcomer: patient and painfully modest Paul Horiuchi, 52, a Japanese-born American who for years made his living as a railroad foreman...
Since last summer, Ruth Sasaki has been holding regular classes in Zen for half a dozen pupils from 7 to 9 each night, aided by an English-speaking Japanese priest and Walter Nowick, a onetime student at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music who has been studying Zen in Kyoto since...
Scores of Americans and Europeans call on Ruth Sasaki each month. But, says she, "the majority of them are faddists or just curious, and Zen is not for them. In the Western world Zen seems to be going through the cult phase. Zen is not a cult. The problem with Western people is that they want to believe in something and at the same time they want something easy. Zen is a lifetime work of self-discipline and study. Its practice destroys the individual self. The ego is, as it were, dissolved into a great ego -so great that...