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ZEN BUDDHISM The intensity of his prayer life seems to have enabled him to conquer pain and friction and fatigue. It all seemed very breathless but he was never out of breath." The same applies to the great men whom I have had the privilege to meet. The Ven. Tai Hsü of China, the spiritual reformer of Chinese Buddhism; Nicholas Roerich, the Russian painter, explorer, poet and idealist; Meher Baba, the apostle of pure love which radiates from him as the warmth of a spiritual fire; and Jamshed Nasserwanji, the saint-like business-man of Karachi who, nine times its mayor, built most of the modern city: all these four men, and their lives could hardly be more various, had the quality of high serenity, and only those who have sat at the receiving end, so to speak, of Dr. Suzuki's mind can speak of his power to lift the receiver's mind a long way to the level of his own. Keyserling had an enormous mind, and at least it was brightly illumined with the approaching rays of satori, and Jung of Zurich has a mind whose range and power and spiritual strength are not yet commonly perceived. I venture to prophesy, however, that one day he will be recognised as one of the first to bridge, as only the intuition and never the intellect can bridge, the chasm which all too effectively divides the man-created spheres of "East" and "West".
As for the “finished product”, the master of life, Tennyson has given in The Mystic, one of his greatest and least known poems, the finest description of such a man, whose occult powers and state of awareness have alike been raised to the highest human degree. Such a man may be as nothing in the eyes of men. His power lies in what he is, not in his influence on the outward lives of men. What we do is what we are; when we are, we shall
