tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756920.post8154969184477888803..comments2024-01-08T06:21:35.864-08:00Comments on Notes in Samsara: It's the 45th annniversy of his death, not the 55thMumon Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01116967568502451788noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756920.post-45024541496259576972011-03-10T12:36:38.305-08:002011-03-10T12:36:38.305-08:00Intellectuals celebrated DT Suzuki but DTS , at le...Intellectuals celebrated DT Suzuki but DTS , at least from what I've read, was not reallly a philosopher--his writing was not bad but he insisted on relating zen to christian mysticism (Eckhardt, IIRC), and ...IM not sure it was that (then, "what is zen" produces many different answers. For some it may be....contemplating ripples in a pool..Void!...for others, it's the yakuza). He was associated with the Blavatsky quacks for a while as well. <br /><br />Many christian mystics --including Eckhardt--were neo-platonists, and IMHE the mahayana at times seems somewhat platonic and "dualistic" rather than the early, southern Bud., which I contend is ...monistic (tho'...perhaps not consistently), something like Schopenhauer's Will (and varieties of hinduism)--. <br /><br />The. Bud. insisted that one cannot escape dissipation; nibbana is then...somewhat therapeutic, if you will--sanity, serenity, wisdom in the face of death --yet in the maha. school, there are great mystical leaps, realizing Voidness, realms of bodhisattvas etc. (tho...granted the bodhisattva a somewhat noble conception-- not very present in rinzai zen AFAICT) The maha. quite exceeds the thera. on the quackometer, IMHEJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.com