D.T. Suzuki

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JUst found this guy as I have started to read "The Dharma Bums" by Jack Kerouac.
I have typed his name into Youtube earlier today & loads of stuff by him has come up, I had no idea he was the guy who did the book "An Introduction to Zen Buddhism" so yet again as the saying goes "You live & learn" as I've known about this book for decades & had a copy ages ago when I was still in my late teenage years (19) & was given it alongside "Prometheus Rising" by Robert Anton Wilson by my old LSD & Mushroom dealer but it's been that many decades since this happened I had forgot it was the same guy.

Anyone care to guide me / give me pointers to check out on the work of D.T. Suzuki?

Thanks in advance.

PS.......
Out of all the types of Buddhism I've come across I used to think I would be most suited to the Vajrayana school but the little I have read on Zen Buddhism it felt the most fitting, I found The Vajrayana school not to my taste to say the least. I just wanted to add this incase someone who is a regular on here may read this & knowing of my past posts & the stuff I am into may think I am way more suited to The tantric school but I found it really not my thing.

 

[Cheshire_Kat]

Here's some Titles that I shamelessly copied from Wikipedia to get you started ~

D T Suzuki

Bibliography​

Essays
Essays in Zen Buddhism: First Series (1927), New York: Grove Press.
Essays in Zen Buddhism: Second Series (1933), New York: Samuel Weiser, Inc. 1953–1971. Edited by Christmas Humphreys.
Essays in Zen Buddhism: Third Series (1934), York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, Inc. 1953. Edited by Christmas Humphreys.
Suzuki translated the Lankavatara Sutra from the original Sanskrit. Boulder, CO: Prajña Press, 1978, ISBN 0877737029, first published Routledge Kegan Paul, 1932.

Shortly after, a second series followed:

An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, Kyoto: Eastern Buddhist Soc. 1934. Republished with foreword by C.G. Jung, London: Rider & Company, 1948. Suzuki calls this an "outline of Zen teaching."[45]
The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk, Kyoto: Eastern Buddhist Soc. 1934. New York: University Books, 1959. This work covers a "description of the Meditation Hall and its life".[45]
Manual of Zen Buddhism Archived 21 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Kyoto: Eastern Buddhist Soc. 1935. London: Rider & Company, 1950, 1956. New York: Random House, 1960 and subsequent editions. A collection of Buddhist sutras, classic texts from the masters, icons and images, including the "Ten Ox-Herding Pictures". Suzuki writes that this work is to "inform the reader of the various literary materials relating to the monastic life...what the Zen monk reads before the Buddha in his daily service, where his thoughts move in his leisure hours, and what objects of worship he has in the different quarters of his institution."[45]

After World War II, a new interpretation:

The Zen Doctrine of No-Mind, London: Rider & Company, 1949. York Beach, Maine: Red Wheel/Weiser 1972, ISBN 0877281823.
Living by Zen. London: Rider & Company, 1949.
Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist: The Eastern and Western Way, Macmillan, 1957. "A study of the qualities Meister Eckhart shares with Zen and Shin Buddhism". Includes translation of myokonin Saichi's poems.
Zen and Japanese Culture, New York: Pantheon Books, 1959. A classic.
Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis, Erich Fromm, D. T. Suzuki, and De Martino. Approximately one third of this book is a long discussion by Suzuki that gives a Buddhist analysis of the mind, its levels, and the methodology of extending awareness beyond the merely discursive level of thought. In producing this analysis, Suzuki gives a theoretical explanation for many of the swordsmanship teaching stories in Zen and Japanese Culture that otherwise would seem to involve mental telepathy, extrasensory perception, etc.

Miscellaneous:

An anthology of his work until the mid-1950s: Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings of D. T. Suzuki, Doubleday, New York: 1956. Edited by William Barrett.
Very early work on a Western mystic-philosopher. Swedenborg: Buddha of the North, West Chester, Pa: Swedenborg Foundation, 1996. Trans. by Andrew Bernstein of Swedenborugu, 1913.
A Miscellany on the Shin Teaching of Buddhism; Kyōto, Shinshū Ōtaniha, 1949.
Shin Buddhism; New York, Harper & Row, 1970.
Gutoku Shaku Shinran, The Kyōgyōshinshō, The Collection of Passages Expounding the True Teaching, Living, Faith, and Realizing of the Pure Land, translated by Daisetz Teitarō Suzuki (ed. by The Eastern Buddhist Society); Kyōto, Shinshū Ōtaniha, 1973.
Collected Writings on Shin Buddhism (ed. by The Eastern Buddhist Society); Kyōto, Shinshū Ōtaniha, 1973.
Transcription of talks on Shin Buddhism. Buddha of Infinite Light. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1998. Edited by Taitetsu Unno.
'Tribute; anthology of essays by great thinkers. D. T. Suzuki: A Zen Life Remembered. Wheatherhill, 1986. Reprinted by Shambhala Publications.
See also the works of Alan Watts, Paul Reps et al.

 

[Zopiclone bandit]

Here's some Titles that I shamelessly copied from Wikipedia to get you started ~

D T Suzuki

Bibliography​

Essays
Essays in Zen Buddhism: First Series (1927), New York: Grove Press.
Essays in Zen Buddhism: Second Series (1933), New York: Samuel Weiser, Inc. 1953–1971. Edited by Christmas Humphreys.
Essays in Zen Buddhism: Third Series (1934), York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, Inc. 1953. Edited by Christmas Humphreys.
Suzuki translated the Lankavatara Sutra from the original Sanskrit. Boulder, CO: Prajña Press, 1978, ISBN 0877737029, first published Routledge Kegan Paul, 1932.

Shortly after, a second series followed:

An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, Kyoto: Eastern Buddhist Soc. 1934. Republished with foreword by C.G. Jung, London: Rider & Company, 1948. Suzuki calls this an "outline of Zen teaching."[45]
The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk, Kyoto: Eastern Buddhist Soc. 1934. New York: University Books, 1959. This work covers a "description of the Meditation Hall and its life".[45]
Manual of Zen Buddhism Archived 21 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Kyoto: Eastern Buddhist Soc. 1935. London: Rider & Company, 1950, 1956. New York: Random House, 1960 and subsequent editions. A collection of Buddhist sutras, classic texts from the masters, icons and images, including the "Ten Ox-Herding Pictures". Suzuki writes that this work is to "inform the reader of the various literary materials relating to the monastic life...what the Zen monk reads before the Buddha in his daily service, where his thoughts move in his leisure hours, and what objects of worship he has in the different quarters of his institution."[45]

After World War II, a new interpretation:

The Zen Doctrine of No-Mind, London: Rider & Company, 1949. York Beach, Maine: Red Wheel/Weiser 1972, ISBN 0877281823.
Living by Zen. London: Rider & Company, 1949.
Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist: The Eastern and Western Way, Macmillan, 1957. "A study of the qualities Meister Eckhart shares with Zen and Shin Buddhism". Includes translation of myokonin Saichi's poems.
Zen and Japanese Culture, New York: Pantheon Books, 1959. A classic.
Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis, Erich Fromm, D. T. Suzuki, and De Martino. Approximately one third of this book is a long discussion by Suzuki that gives a Buddhist analysis of the mind, its levels, and the methodology of extending awareness beyond the merely discursive level of thought. In producing this analysis, Suzuki gives a theoretical explanation for many of the swordsmanship teaching stories in Zen and Japanese Culture that otherwise would seem to involve mental telepathy, extrasensory perception, etc.

Miscellaneous:

An anthology of his work until the mid-1950s: Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings of D. T. Suzuki, Doubleday, New York: 1956. Edited by William Barrett.
Very early work on a Western mystic-philosopher. Swedenborg: Buddha of the North, West Chester, Pa: Swedenborg Foundation, 1996. Trans. by Andrew Bernstein of Swedenborugu, 1913.
A Miscellany on the Shin Teaching of Buddhism; Kyōto, Shinshū Ōtaniha, 1949.
Shin Buddhism; New York, Harper & Row, 1970.
Gutoku Shaku Shinran, The Kyōgyōshinshō, The Collection of Passages Expounding the True Teaching, Living, Faith, and Realizing of the Pure Land, translated by Daisetz Teitarō Suzuki (ed. by The Eastern Buddhist Society); Kyōto, Shinshū Ōtaniha, 1973.
Collected Writings on Shin Buddhism (ed. by The Eastern Buddhist Society); Kyōto, Shinshū Ōtaniha, 1973.
Transcription of talks on Shin Buddhism. Buddha of Infinite Light. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1998. Edited by Taitetsu Unno.
'Tribute; anthology of essays by great thinkers. D. T. Suzuki: A Zen Life Remembered. Wheatherhill, 1986. Reprinted by Shambhala Publications.
See also the works of Alan Watts, Paul Reps et al.

You read any of them yourself?
I only have seen his work so far on Youtube, you a fan of his work?

 

[Cheshire_Kat]

You read any of them yourself?
I only have seen his work so far on Youtube, you a fan of his work?

I have read a lot of his work during the 1950's. He was a well known voice to the beat generation, a friend of mine introduced me to his work back then.

 

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Ive read some of his stuff and I like the way he teaches. I cant really explain why I just do. I practiced Therevada Buddhism about 20 years ago. I still sit and the teachings I learned have stuck with me. The Buddhas teachings are universal abd pertain to life in any generation. My favorite was Ahjan Chah. He has a lot on Youtube now. From Thai Forest Tradition. Very very easy to read, ir listen too. He had a knack for taking somewhat complex stuff abd making it accessible to all. But yes DT Suzuki was pivotal. Good thread.