Durckheim, Count Karlfried Graf
1896-1988
1896-1988
German diplomat, psychotherapist, Zen author....
sent to Japan in 1938, spending 8 years there
spent a year imprisoned at end of WWII under
American occupation of Japan
visited D.T. Suzuki
returned to Germany, introducing Zen ideas to
the European community.
sent to Japan in 1938, spending 8 years there
spent a year imprisoned at end of WWII under
American occupation of Japan
visited D.T. Suzuki
returned to Germany, introducing Zen ideas to
the European community.
| Durkheim was only a man of knowledge, learning, scholarship. He was a great intellectual. I have gone through all his works; I can see that he has heard only the words of the Zen masters, but he has not heard their silences. He has met their skeletons, but he has not encountered their presence, their existential essence. Durkheim certainly has introduced Zen to Europe, but his Zen is just like a paper boat: you call it a boat, but don't start using it as a boat... --Osho Hari Om Tat Sat, ch. 25 |
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