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ZEN BUDDHISM on the wave-length of compassion to all forms of life? Listen again to the famous Four Great Vows which the monks of Engakuji, for example, the Zen monastery where Dr. Suzuki himself resides, recite at the end of every lecture by the spiritual Head of the monastery. "How innumerable sentient beings are, I vow to save
them all; How inexhaustible our evil passions are, I vow to
exterminate them; How immeasurable the holy doctrines are, I vow to
study them; How inaccessible the path to Buddha is, I vow to
attain it." Is that not enough for one life's work, or even for a dozen lives to come?
