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...Zen the here-and-now moment is everything. Scriptures are snares for the mind's entanglement-a favorite Zen picture shows a Zen monk tearing up a Buddhist scroll. Even concepts are to be shunned as far as possible. "Emptiness" is looked upon by the Zen Buddhist as the closest thing to truth...
...Zen has no theology-the existence of God is neither affirmed nor denied-nor liturgy, beyond the act of meditation itself. Hence there are no Zen churches or membership figures for the laity (there are an estimated 19,325 monks in Zen monasteries in Japan, plus 1.658 nuns). The practitioner of Zen is concerned only with enlightenment, which he calls satori. Enlightenment is often achieved by means that are shocking, in every sense of the word. A master may help his student to satori by hitting him with a staff (pang) or roaring at him (pang-ho). A less physical...
...lectures attract a well-packed but mixed bag of serious students and cult shoppers, is one of the most respected religious leaders in America. His classes are drawing a wider variety as well as a larger number of students since the war. Painters and psychiatrists seem especially interested in Zen, he finds. Psychoanalysts, says Dr. Suzuki, his tiny eyes twinkling under winglike eyebrows, have a lot to learn from Zen: "They go round and round on the surface of the mind without stopping. But Zen goes deep." The main difficulty Westerners have with Zen, says Suzuki, is their habit...
...Suzuki's lectures are lectures only; Zen is a way and must be taught from heart to heart, from master to disciple, if it is to be practiced. The real future of Zen in the U.S. depends on English-speaking Roshis-masters who have attained enlightenment. One of the most likely candidates is blond, ruddy Walter Nowick, 30, a World War II veteran, raised on a Long Island potato farm, who is now studying at Kyoto's Sokokuji Temple. Nowick rises each morning at four to meditate on a koan such...
...hangs over a precipice by his teeth, which are clenched in the branch of a tree. His hands are full, and his feet cannot reach the face of the precipice. A friend leans over and asks him. 'What is Zen?' What answer should the man make...