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ZEN BUDDHISM Note the word "interfused”, which Dr. Suzuki has chosen to describe, if that were possible, the meaning of Jijimuge. On the other hand, Vaughan's vision in "The World” is second-hand. He saw "Eternity like a great Ring of pure and endless light, all calm as it was bright ..." and the vision is wrought into a glorious poem. But he was still looking at something, albeit subjectively, whereas in satori there is no more seer and seen. Whitman found the certainty of satori. "I mind how once we lay ... Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and
knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my
own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my
own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers
and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson- of the creation is love."2 Nelson had the serenity of satori, as well as the certainty. "Perhaps the real meaning of the 'Nelson Touch lies in its certainty, the power he had of inspiring all who met him with the impossibility of his failing in any attempt he made; once a plan had his seal upon it history was already made, even before the event.", Those who believe that satori can only come to a man of peace must face this fact, as also the many accounts of soldiers who, in the thick of battle, felt an impersonal exhilaration, a
1 Keel, or bedplate. 2 Quoted in The Varieties of Religious Experience, JAMES, P. 396. 8 Poseidon, CAPES.
| SR No. | 011121 |
| Book Title | Zen Buddhism |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Christmas Humphereys |
| Publisher | William Heinemann LTD |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 278 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 15 MB |