Essays in Zen Buddhism

📦 Product Details

• Author: D. T. Suzuki
  
• Publisher: New Age Books
  
• Publication Date: 2 October 2017
  
• Edition: 1st Edition
  
• Language: English
  
• Print Length: 368 pages
  
• ISBN-10: 8178224305
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8178224305
  
• Item Weight: 450 g

📖 About the Book

Essays in Zen Buddhism explores the philosophy, principles, and spiritual practices of Zen Buddhism. Through a series of essays, D. T. Suzuki introduces readers to Zen's approach to meditation, direct experience, self-realization, and the nature of consciousness.

The book examines the relationship between Zen and Buddhist thought, highlighting the importance of intuition, mindfulness, and personal insight in understanding spiritual truth. Suzuki presents complex philosophical ideas in a way that encourages readers to reflect on the limitations of purely intellectual understanding and the role of direct experience in spiritual practice.

Zen in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one’s own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. By making us drink right from the fountain of life, it liberates us from all the yokes under which we finite beings are usually suffering in this world. We can say that Zen liberates all the energies properly and naturally stored in each of us, which are in ordinary circumstances cramped and distorted so that they find no adequate channel for activity.

This volume being second in the series, stresses on the study of ‘The Koan Exercise’, which at present constitutes almost the alpha and omega of Zen discipline, especially as it is practised in the Rinzai School of the Zen sect. The Koan technique is full of pitfalls, but its development was inevitable, and without it Zen might have not survived. The study of the Koan exercise as presented in this series is a general idea of what it is.

This work is valuable for readers interested in Buddhist philosophy, meditation, Eastern spirituality, and comparative religion.

✍️ About the Author

isetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a well known Buddhist scholar, known for his important publications on Zen Buddhism. He was a professor at Otani University, Japan. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1963.

D. T. Suzuki (1870–1966) was a prominent Japanese Buddhist scholar, philosopher, and author who played a significant role in introducing Zen Buddhism to Western audiences. His writings explored Zen, Mahayana Buddhism, and Japanese spiritual traditions, influencing generations of scholars and spiritual seekers.