Bill!, Edgar, Mike, and others on this thread, I recall an account of an exchange that transpired at a philosophical meeting in Hawai'i in the early 1950s, at University of Hawai'i, Honolulu.
This account was transmitted by the musician John Cage, who was also in attendance at the meeting. The meeting was organized by Robert Aitken, who was at Hawai'i for his Master's (no pun intended) degree in Literature. At the meeting, the outstanding celebrity invited-guest was Professor D. T. Suzuki, whose three volumes of ESSAYS and whose lecture tour in USA at M.I.T., and Columbia was making a huge sensation among Academics and Beats at the time. The title and topic of the philosophical meeting, sponsored by the Philosophy Department was, "The Nature of Reality". Cage told us that, at one point in the meeting, someone at the dais table on-stage with the assembled speakers put this question to Suzuki: "Doctor Suzuki... would you say that the table we are sitting at is REAL? ... (pause)... In what SENSE is it real?" Suzuki answered: "In EVERY sense!" (I hope that entertains, even if does not otherwise "help!") ;-) --Joe --- In [email protected], "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote: > Buddha Nature however is not dualistic. It is holistic. There is no > subject/object, self/other or internal/external. There is Just THIS! And > that experience IS reality. ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
