We know. Talk about missing the point. Ian On 21 Oct 2013 20:49, "david buchanan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dave Thomas said: > ...The D.T. Suzuki mentioned negatively on this website published "Zen and > Japanese Culture" in 1938 which was is based on lectures given in America > and England in 1936. It was republished for the mass market in English in > 1959. ... > > > > dmb says: > It might interest some people to know that William James knew D. T. Suzuki > and talked with him about "pure experience" (aka DQ) and Suzuki is > considered to have been "the foremost explainer of Zen to the West". Alan > Watts was his star student. > > According to the author of "SCIOUSNESS AND CON-SCIOUSNESS: WILLIAM JAMES > AND THE PRIME REALITY OF NON-DUAL EXPERIENCE," Jonathan Bricklin,... > > "Suzuki, for his part, immediately saw the connection between James’s pure > ex- perience and Zen, and introduced James’s writings to his teacher Kitaro > Nishida. Nishida not only directly appropriated James’s analysis, but also > his expression ‘‘pure experience’’ in seeking to translate the > direct-experience satori upon which Zen is based. Suzuki, too, appropriated > the phrase ‘‘pure experience’’ to define ‘‘this most fundamental experience > . . . beyond differentiation’’ > > > ABSTRACT: William James’s radical empiricism of ‘‘pure experience’’ both > anticipated and directly influenced the transmission of Zen in the West. In > this centennial reconstruction, the author shows how the man called both > the ‘‘father of American Psychology’’ and the ‘‘father of transpersonal > psychology’’ was also the father of a Western approach to enlightenment. > Relying mainly on introspection and ether- induced states, James made a > crucial distinction between con-sciousness (consciousness-with-self) and > sciousness (consciousness-without-self). Prime reality, he maintained, is > not revealed through the subject- object divide, but in the ‘‘sciousness’’ > of non-dual experience. The coherence of organized experience (both static > and successive) is accounted for without an organizing ‘‘I.’’ The ‘‘I’’ > itself is seen not as the foundation of consciousness, but as a > reverberation within it: a palpitating core of welcoming and opposing > emotions. > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
