Greetings
This little tidbit of Buddhist Modernism throws a loop around the experience of
the integral source that Sufism likewise expresses.
Zen is the ultimate fact of all philosophy and religion. Every intellectual
effort must culminate in it, or rather must start from it, if it is to bear any
practical fruits. Every religious faith must spring from it if it has to prove
at all efficiently and livingly workable in our active life. Therefore Zen is
not necessarily the fountain of Buddhist thought and life alone; it is very
much alive also in Christianity, Mohammedanism, in Taoism, and even
positivistic Confucianism. What makes all these religions and philosophies
vital and inspiring, keeping up their usefulness and efficiency, is due to the
presence in them of what I may designate as the Zen element.
DT Suzuki
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