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I'd love to whatch it. Do you has the DVD?

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15 years ago....papaji was a zen master😂😊

"no hay manera de tocar el infinito... ¿Cómo vamos a liberarnos de las limitaciones de la existencia? La salvación debe ser buscada en lo finito, no hay nada infinito además de las cosas finitas. Si buscas algo trascendental que te separa de este mundo de relatividad, esto equivale a la aniquilación de tu ser. No quieres la salvación si debe costarte la existencia. Ya sea que lo entiendas o no, lo mismo sucede cuando se vive lo finito. Pues te mueres si dejas de comer o dejas de mantenerte caliente por estar aspirando el infinito… Así que lo finito es lo infinito y viceversa. No son dos cosas separadas, el pensamiento está obligado a concebirlas así, intelectualmente." Palabras del maestro D.T. Suzuki

Thanks for showing Robert Aitken...he's the first Buddhist I ever met. ❤💙

People that had "seen" their original nature after "returning their flesh to their mothers and their bones to their fathers"; are infinitly very few compared to the rest. Now that we have the technology, one enlightened mind is able to inseminate numberless minds. Why is that in spite of being 7 billions such a ridiculous tinny fraction give birth to their real self? So, it is not a question of asking were are the enlightened minds; it is a question of how many have the brain with a genetic programming ripe to be "enlightened". My answer is that the proportion between ignorants and wise will continue being the same as long as humanity exists. Suzuki never taught me more than a vocabulary and associated concepts that I used to intellectually try to make sense of the experience. His writtings gave me an indirect confirmation of the validity and veracity of my experience (kensho) that is so wild that you ponder the possibility you are mentally ill. I reasoned, "if I can understand the meaning of his abstruse writtings without having to go through a laborious mental process, then my understanding of Zen is at the same level as mine in him". Puuff! after this brain squize I needs and icecream.

wow i must be the first to comment in the last 8 years glad to see there are gems like these still present on the internet

The last statement was mind-blowing....way to live, way to go !

It isnt that difficult to realize that "time" is a contrived invention. The use of clocks and calendars is useful but not to be taken seriously. There is only this ever changing eternal moment.

"capture the wise men. . . alive"

I feel, people would not be able to understand the significance or magnitude of where his knowledge came from. I take his explanation of time, as opposed to einstein because he retracted his belief in aether and that shows a strong bias for truth, as absolute fact; it just makes very practical sense when one has a well rounded understanding of electromagnetism or life force or vril or chi or Tao or zero-point energy, etc.

Thanks 🙏🏼 for posting, great teacher of Zen, Suzuki Roshi ⛩🌸

.. a truly wonderful doc.Thanks MG.Do you come to BC much these days ?

No mind - no zen

D.T.Suzuki on purposelessness : *"When you drrop farrt , you don't say at* 🕘 *nine o'clock i drrop farrt !* *It a happens of itself so !"* (Quoted by Alan Watts) 🌬️🕉️🎆

Thankfully we have great teachers still like Shoryu Bradley and Gyobutsuji Zen Monastery :)

"zen is held at arms length by contemporary japanese in this society. something for neurotics, misfits, malcontents. in the west, we've given them way too much respect without examination." That's probably because they are brainwashed by a destructive work culture, semi-fascist government, mass media, consumerism and generally hollow lifestyle. Not much different from America, but even worse for the average person, in some ways.

Does anyone know where I can watch this documentary? Really struggling to find it.

Give me a break with your P.C. BS

Priceless -would love to see this film in toto.

my name is andrew i am father of tomo the way forward is so often the view backwards is it not my dear don

@catandpiddle Same to you friend :) Merry Xmas!

@pef23 Then there's little point of any further discussion I think. Perhaps your credulity is hardwired to your aversion to criticism. So be it. Live a full and good life.

@catandpiddle I read that article and thought it was utter garbage. If you think it has any worth, there is not too much point in me going on like this. If you choose to believe that Suzuki was a nationalist, there is certainly some proof to "support" that hypothesis, but Suzuki was absolutely not "avowed." Future finds of private letters, etc. may prove this but at this stage there is no conclusive evidence. I think it is pointless to make such strong accusations without any reliable proof.

@pef23 The "Negative Side" of D. T. Suzuki's Relationship to War . Enough said ...

@pef23 Much of what we know about anyone that has passed on lacks credulity unless written down and Suzuki would have been shrewd enough to keep his thoughts on the matter either private or shared with only a few. The gleanings from those that knew him here, in Japan, in fact very much 'do' point towards nationalism. Mumon roshi was the same, a nationalist and expansionist no doubt about it at all. I shall look for the book you've mentioned but the larger point is, Zen is avoided by many in Japa

@catandpiddle Also, I would be keen to know if you have read Sato's "Brian Victoria and the Question of Scholarship" in the Eastern Buddhist and Victoria's own response in the same issue. I can't see how you can interpret Victoria any other way but that he concedes defeat on the issue but remains subjectively unconvinced - not exactly an academic standpoint. In addition, the work by the native Japanese researchers is highly questionable. How do you argue that their work is reliable?

@catandpiddle In that case I would certainly like you to point me to some of this proof as I have never seen anything conclusive in Suzuki's own words. Victoria adds his own skewed interpretation to everything I have seen from him. Do you know of anything where Suzuki says "I support Japanese expansion into Asia" or anything of the like? You say "avowed." What do you mean by that?

@pef23 yes you're quite right, you are indeed 'guessing' my knowledge of the japanese language. I'm a translator, make a living this way and read, speak and write the language very well indeed. there is no 'myth' about it at all. suzuki was an avowed nationalist and I know with certainty that victoria researched the subject very well. not only that, there are native japanese researchers who have the same opinion about suzuki.

@catandpiddle Reading a couple of works by Sharf and Victoria and the like doesn't qualify you to make claims like that. Have you atually checked any of the (extremely limited) "proofs" that these scholars' arguments lay on? I am guessing that your knowledge of the Japanese language is as poor as some of these scholars. The myth of Suzuki as nationalist was started by a few men that stood to gain a lot in terms of their own careers.

@thisNewFoundLand I agreed

First i read his book 'Introduction to Zen' and it meant nothing. Then I realized myself, read it again and found thruth and myself in every word...

0:34 ignorant?

@MrJami123 I cannot agree. See for yourself the caution, wariness the ordinary Japanese feel towards 'any' buddhism. It's a business, and a lucrative ones as tax free institutions for funerals and the ongoing visits to the homes of the bereaved (for many years) to offer prayers and deliver earnest homilies on 'dharma'. Something nobody quiet believes anymore ... You're right, Japan was cautious about western imperialism. But that's the only point and certainly it didn't justify the evil mayhem.

@MrJami123 well, my opinion is that both the rinzai and soto schools prefer that westerners remain in the dark about this period of their histories, 'zen at war' smashed the illusion of zen-as-pacifists wide open. zen is held at arms length by contemporary japanese in this society. something for neurotics, misfits, malcontents. in the west, we've given them way too much respect without examination.

a fascinating man indeed. he was also a fascist, strong proponent of the war and just a real double character. do your research on these people before buying into what these people say. suggested reading. 'zen at war' by brian daizen victoria. more fancy talk, unfounded, repeating all the old zen stuff. nothing new here at all and known by the wise in other traditions, particularly yoga from which zen comes.

@JapanInterCulture If I was living somewhere else and had the money, I would wholeheartedly pay for anything that I consider is good and valuable. I can understand that at the end of the day you still have to pay your bills, but please understand that we are not some idiots pricks, trying to get away stealing. We try to learn new useful things by the means that we have available to us. I'm not defending intellectual theft, but I'd say you have to make some distinctions.

@JapanInterCulture I totally understand your argument and I agree to it to some degree. Why not 100%? Because without the torrents rips that you mention, it would be no way for the rest of us living in poor countries (Eastern Europe, to be exact) to get a chance of seeing these kind of materials. And that would be a shame, really, because especially the spiritual information should be accessible to as many as possible. I'm sorry for you, but I can't afford your DVD.

Cassyan, I was truly dismayed when one Torrent "libertarian" announced he had "created the rip" of my documentary and uploaded it. This rip-off is a slap in the face of the real creator (me). "Giving it away free will lead to MORE sales, TV producers and film distributors will come knocking on your door, and we'll make you famous," the Webmeister argued. I'm not a Hollywood producer, and need DVD sales to get out of debt. Please don't support Torrent uploads of independent productions.

@tutifruti0 it is great and inspirational. I've found it on torr... well, you imagine where.

Good point. Part of the NBC "Wisdom" series, done between 1957 and 1965, was called "Conversations with Elder Wise Men;" in another part the title was "Conversations with Distinguished Persons." Among those interviewed (in the latter, I assume) were Eleanor Roosevelt, Nadia Boulanger & Margaret Mead. I wouldn't say the (mostly) men running the network at the time were sensitive to women's rights, nor that D.T. Suzuki was disrespectful of women. It IS true that Zen lineage was patriarchal.

@JapanInterCulture The 'mind' as we know it, keeps us from experiencing reality....but first you must become aware of the 'intellectualized egoistic mind', that has function, but often 'crowds out' the mind that is capable of experiencing and understanding reality. Without contact with reality, most thoughts are illusionary.

...it is marvelous to hear him speak for the first time. thanks uploader! DT's library was established in 1949 at a temple in Kamakura (city) in Japan. Therein is housed the writings of a true master who dedicated his life (1870-1966) to the illumination of the egoic mind. DT was uniquely gifted to bridge the Eastern and Western worldviews. Though yet largely unknown, his footprint is massive indeed.

...one other note: .anyone who claims that DT Suzuki was in support of ANY war has absolutely no knowledge of the man and his life's work. peace; and thanks uploader.

...i have collected about 7 of DT Suzuki's books, and i continually return to them for the ever-unfolding wisdom they contain. DT was a genius; his writing in English is extraordinary considering that it was not his native tongue. Suzuki-sensei's text concerning the great Chinese visionary named HuiNeng ("The Zen Doctine of No-Mind") is a treasure of wisdom; a more gentle introduction to his profound intelligence is "The Awakening of Zen" which includes speeches he gave in Europe etc...

slice it anyway you want, examine it through electron microscope for 40 yrs., talk about it some more... boxes! boxes of explanations and labels that only approximates the real event without your default assumptions. in the end, it's all about you!

THANKS ! (the first time)

Reality is an illusion, huh? Zero and infinity, life and death one in the same? So how come he supported the war? Fancy talk, that's all... Most of these guys were treated like rock stars everywhere and to purport that ego annihilation is their goal just smacks of something out of whack. Particularly this old nationalist.

Interesting video.

Daisetz Suzuki was very practical, and wore a watch. The point he was making is that, in Zen, one lives every infinitesimal moment to the maximum. The past is gone, and the future is not yet here. Objectively, only the present "really exists," or perhaps better put, we exist IN it. "Reality" is a question that philosophers have struggled with over the ages. Zen warns us that much of what we take for granted as "true" or "real" is subjective and illusory, including the concept of our "self."