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Living Zen

Robert Linssen

Translated by Diana Abrahams-Curtel

New York

The Macmillan Company

Preface

Western interest in Zen Buddhism is steadily rising, and the ferment introduced by Dr. D. T. Suzuki is beginning to take effect and to appear in visible reaction. For long we have depended on his vast and deeply illumined mind to give us, to the extent that books can ever convey it, that vision of Non-Duality which only the few attain. But if the Zen technique is a true way to Reality it can be and must be adapted to the needs of the Western mind. To what extent the more famous ‘devices’ used by the Zen Masters remains to be seen; much will depend on the speed with which a few minds, albeit in Western bodies, can reach the very high standard required of a Japanese Zen roshi, or qualified Zen teacher.

Meanwhile we are producing our own writers, those who, after a long or short intellectual study of Zen, have acquired enough ‘experience’ to think that they have something, useful to say to their fellow students. I understand that the late Eugen Herrigel’s Zen in the Art of Archery is in the opinion of Zen experts in Japan the best such work so far produced, but new minds are publishing their ‘findings’month by month, and between them they may be producing the beginnings of a Western approach to Zen. All of them approach the subject via the intellect; it may be that for the West there is no other way, but in every case the intellect is illumined by a high degree of intuition or ‘direct seeing’, and the higher that thought can life us the easier it may be to take the ‘leap ‘which alone will land us beyond the dualism of even the highest thought...

Contents

Preface by Christmas Humphreys

Foreword by Dr. R. Godel

Preface to the second (French) edition

Introductory note

            Part one

I, Summary history of Buddhism

II. Short historical sketch of Zen

III. Is Buddhism a philosophy?

IV. Is Buddhism a religion?

V. The notion of God in Buddhism

VI. The Illusory character of aid, of salvation, of all systems

VII. The nature of things

VIII. Complementarily of physics and Psychology

IX. The force of habit

X. the action of the force of habit on the mind according to Psychological types

XI. Memory-habits and the birth of the ‘I-process’

XII. Tanka, or the thirst for becoming

XIII. Obedience to the nature of things

XIV. Nirvana or satori

XV. Nirvana and the void

XVI. Nirvana, Satori and Lucid love

XVII. Lucidity without ideation

XVIII. Nirvana, Satori and the present

XIX. Satori and the Zen unconscious

XX. Characteristics of Satori according to the Zen masters

XXI. Zen Buddhism and everyday life

XXII. The inadequacies

XXIII. Buddhism and social problems

XXIV. Buddhism and Christianity

XXV. Similarities between Zen and Krishnamurti

XXVI. Divergences between Buddhism, Zen and Krishnamurti

NoteI.Commentary on a ‘Koan’

Note II. Brief survey of the Tibetan schools of philosophy, of the ‘Oral transmission’, of the (so-called) ‘secret doctrines’, by Madame A. David-Neel

            Part two

Introduction to the conclusions

I.                    Transformation of physical life and its relations with the Psycho-Physical unity

II.                 Transformation of human relations

III.               The true ‘Letting-go ‘effected by ‘love-intelligence’

Note I On the birth of thoughts

Note II Satori and the research techniques of physicists

Note III From personal consciousness to the state of Satori

Note IV Parable of the flame and the smoke

Marginal notes

Index

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