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Well, back to the original "praise".............. Found the following snippet as I trawled the Net, lured by Snoopy's detour.......(not to say "hi-jack".....) Interestingly, later in life Suzuki was more inclined to Jodo Shin (True Pure Land) practice on a personal level, seeing in the...

Having said the above, there remains the small reference I quoted earlier concerning Suzuki and WW2..... The only real and hard reference I could find re World War 2 and the attitude of Suzuki is.......that he was "under suspicion of the Japanese Government for his opposition to militarism"...

No need for apologies...................Yours truly has indulged in his own debunking a while back on another forum, when I was seeking to speak of the value of doubt, and one unwary poster refered to a well known Tibetan Buddhist who spoke of doubt as "rat-****". Knowing just a little...

jiii, thanks so much for that................like yourself, Suzuki's "jingo-antics" was new news to me. Apart from his actual writings and his dialogues/letters with Thomas Merton, I knew very little about his life. And was fed on a diet of quotes such as that of Herbert Read, who said of...

Well, as I said, what he was is what he was, yet I must admit to finding it very difficult to associate Suzuki - from what I have known and read of him - with being .....apparently strongly supportive of the Japanese government's racist and ultra-nationalistic views during WW2. ("fanatical...

Hi Snoops, At the moment I am trying to find some sort of biography of Suzuki, but can only trace a couple, one of which is only of 63 pages. I have found various biographical references on the Net. The only real and hard reference I could find re World War 2 and the attitude of Suzuki...

D T Suzuki is well known in Buddhist circles as being one of the first true "easterners" to bring genuine knowledge of zen/buddhism to the West. Perhaps to some he is now "old hat" and out-dated, yet I have just been reading his book, first published in 1907, "Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism", and...

It does seem to be this constant stream of consciousness that creates and sustains the sense of "I" that then leads, itself, to the life of wanting more of that which pleases the "I", less of that which displeases the "I", the on-going "samsara" of birth and death. Why Buddhadasa Bhikkhu speaks...

In my understanding, what is "real" can only BE, it cannot be thought or defined. Earl - in 2005!! - seems to point this way. We are real in as much as we obviously are, yet we have no experience of the potentials of our "reality" because of misconceptions, "viewpoints" and...

I have'nt read through this entire thread so this may have been mentioned before.......... I was glancing through a library book that concerned Avatars, or Incarnations of God, as this was understood within the various Faiths. At the very end was a quote from the Koran which I can only give...

Pathless, Must admit to being a trifle shocked to find such erotica on an inter-faith forum................normally I have to go further afield to find such fare......:D Anyway, with such a kit I would suppose that throwing them up in the air and reading whatever falls would produce the...

Here is another by Philip Larkin, "At Grass" The eye can hardly pick them out From the cold shade they shelter in, Till wind distresses tail and main; Then one crops grass, and moves about - The other seeming to look on - And stands anonymous again Yet fifteen years ago, perhaps...

Hi Snoopy, The name "Philip Larkin" caught my eye, being an admirer of his poetry.............which I have described elsewhere as being often bleak, yet tinged with compassion for the human situation. The line quoted rang some sort of bell, and I looked it up. It is actually the final line of...

Hi Pathless, I was in my early thirties even then! I think my anger was just about what I saw as untruthfulness...............why should the little lad "be an angel" merely because he was handicapped? My daughter now works with special needs children, and I remember once asking her what...

And here is a little one of my own..........:o Written well over twenty years ago now. There was a little mentally and physically handicapped boy called Georgie living next door, who seemed to spend his life in his wheelchair in a world of his own. One day as I came out he was in his chair and...

I have always loved the poems of Philip Larkin. His is often a "bleak" vision, yet many of his poems carry deep undertones of compassion. Here is "Faith Healing" Slowly the women file to where he stands Upright in rimless glasses, silver hair, Dark suit, white collar. Stewards tirelessly...

Pathless, I indentify completely with your own chosen preferences and agree with much of what you say. Give me a poem any day rather than some academic discourse! As far as academic study is concerned, I have always been glad that my first real introduction to Buddhism was via Theravada...

Oh yes, you've done it all right.................:eek: I remember my first reading of a "Survey of Buddhism" and me thinking just how "authentic" it was to be reading a book on Buddhism by a "real" Easterner...............Sangharakshita no less!! Imagine my despair when it was finally...

Hi Snoopy and Pathless, Just picking up on a couple of points.......... Regarding words and contexts, its instructive that Bhikkhu Nanamoli (actually Osbert Moore, an Oxford graduate) attempted - as evidenced in his various notebooks found after his death - certain experimentations by...

Well, I would say that Buddhism not being a "religion of the book" - in the same sense as say Christianity or Islam - then the questions/problems raised would never be finally destructive regarding a degree of faith/trust in the efficacy of the dharma to bring the cessation of suffering. The...