Kapleau, Philip
1912-2004 92 years
1912-2004 92 years
American Zen student, teacher, author,...
wrote well known Zen book, The Three Pillars of
Zen
court reporter at WWII Nuremberg Trials, and
Japanese War Crimes Trials
became interested in Zen, lived and studied in
Japan
help found Rochester Zen Center in New York,
USA
wrote well known Zen book, The Three Pillars of
Zen
court reporter at WWII Nuremberg Trials, and
Japanese War Crimes Trials
became interested in Zen, lived and studied in
Japan
help found Rochester Zen Center in New York,
USA
| oshobob The Living Workshop |
| People in Osho's Talks |
| Osho, Philip Kapleau writes in his book, The Three Pillars of Zen: "The drive towards enlightenment is powered on the one hand by a painfully felt inner bondage – both a frustration with life and a fear of death – and on the other hand, by the conviction that through satori one can gain liberation." Philip Kapleau does not understand Zen as an experience. His book is beautiful. The Three Pillars of Zen is a good intellectual introduction, but only intellectual. Even this statement shows that the person does not understand. Zen is not a "drive towards enlightenment." Zen is enlightenment; it is not a drive. But the contemporary mind thinks only in terms of drive, motives, ambitions, desires. Zen is not a motivation. It is not an effort to reach somewhere... --Osho The Zen Manifesto: Freedom From Oneself, ch. 8 |