(Welcome link) (ewkwho?) note: Seems like people could get confused if they are new to the conversation, so here -
DT Suzuki -
- famous Zen scholar, most important academic voice of the 1900's on Zen questions.
- Not a Zen Master, so academic arguments actually work on him which is fun.
- Friend to other famous Zen scholar R.H. Blyth, the most overlooked academic voice of the 1900's on Zen questions.
- DT was an international celebrity for awhile, which didn't really go to his head. Great but way overpriced documentary on him called Zen Life, where they try to make him seem like more than a scholar but ultimately can't pull it off.
Shunryu Suzuki -
- priest from Dogen's culty religion who left Japan because he didn't like Dogen Buddhism in Japan, which was largely dedicated to and funded by expensive funeral services for rich people.
- Taught prayer-meditation in the West, wasn't a scholar, wasn't an academic, and wasn't well educated.
- His peers were these guys: /r/zen/wiki/sexpredators. Shunryu famously claimed his favorite student was "enlightened" while studying under him, later that famous student began clandestine sexual relationships with other, less famous, students.
- Shunry's sayings were published under "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind", and in a dazzling display of religious privileged and cultural misappropriation, is quoted in the book as admitting his religion had no connection to Zen, but was just a kind of Buddhism.
Submitted October 20, 2020 at 03:05PM by ewk https://ift.tt/2Hgyr4S
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