D. T. Suzuki on the Unconscious in Zen Art, Meditation, and Enlightenment

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvSteve Odin,University of Hawaii-Manoa) Odin, Steve (Professor

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A comprehensive study of D. T. Suzuki's Zen philosophy and philosophical psychology in relation to his Buddhist understanding of the "cosmic Unconscious."This book explores how the Japanese philosopher D. T. Suzuki (1870–1966) developed an integral synthesis of Eastern and Western sources to establish a modern philosophical psychology of the "cosmic Unconscious," which he in turn used as the basis to interpret every aspect of Zen art, meditation, and enlightenment. Beyond Freud's personal unconscious and Jung's collective unconscious, according to Suzuki, is the cosmic Unconscious of Zen, which as absolute nothingness is the fountain of inexhaustible creative potentialities and the source of all Zen-inspired arts. The book demonstrates that, like the Kyoto School of modern Japanese philosophy, Suzuki's Zen endeavors to overcome the existential problem of nihilism or relative nothingness by shifting to the openness of absolute nothingness wherein emptiness is fullness and all things are disclosed in the evanescent beauty of their suchness. Suzuki, however, formulates his scheme in terms of a depth psychology where the cosmic Unconscious is the encompassing locus of absolute nothingness. Ultimately, the book argues that, by integrating both Eastern and Western views of the unconscious psyche, including the different schools of Zen and Mahayana Buddhism, as well as American, French, and German theories of the unconscious, Suzuki's Zen concept of the cosmic Unconscious constitutes a significant original contribution to philosophical psychology.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-07-01
Mått152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series, Perspectives in Contemplative Studies
Antal sidor326
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9798855803044

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsCover ArtIntroductionPart One. The Unconscious in Zen Theory and PracticeChapter 1. Suzuki's Zen Doctrine of Cosmic UnconsciousNo-Mind as the UnconsciousThe Unconscious as EmptinessThe Unconscious as Indra's NetThe Unconscious as the Storehouse ConsciousnessThe Unconscious as Ordinary MindSuzuki's Zen Map of the UnconsciousThe Mu Koan and Other Zen Meditation Techniques for Accessing the UnconsciousChapter 2: The Unconscious in Suzuki's Zen Aestheticism Zen Aestheticism in Japanese CultureSuzuki and Nishida on Beauty as Muga or EcstasyChapter 3. The Unconscious in Zen and Bushidō: The Religio-Aesthetic Way of the Martial ArtsThe Art of SwordsmanshipThe Art of ArcherySuzuki's "Samurai Zen" in Critical PerspectiveChapter 4. The Unconscious in Zen and Geidō: The Religio-Aesthetic Way of the Fine Arts Sumie Ink PaintingTea CeremonyHaiku PoetryThe Impact of Suzuki's Zen Aestheticism on the Avant-Garde ArtworldPart Two: Zen and Western Models of the UnconsciousChapter 5. The Unconscious in Zen and American ThoughtZen and William JamesZen and A. N. WhiteheadChapter 6. The Unconscious in Zen and German PhilosophyThe Abyss in Jacob Boehme's Philosophical MysticismThe Monadology of G. W. F. Leibniz Obscure Representations in the Transcendental Idealism of Immanuel KantThe Unconscious in the Aesthetic Idealism of F. W. J. SchellingThe Grand Synthesis in Eduard von Hartmann's Philosophy of the UnconsciousChapter 7. The Unconscious in Zen and German PsychologyZen and Freudian PsychoanalysisErich Fromm on Zen and PsychoanalysisZen and Jungian Psychology Zen, the Jungian Psychology of Kawai Hayao, and the Fiction of Murakami HarukiChapter 8. The Unconscious in Zen and French ThoughRancière and Suzuki on the Aesthetic Unconscious Zen, Derrida, and Lacan on the Unconscious as a Möbius Band Zen and Sartre on the Transparency of ConsciousnessZen and the Rhizomatic Unconscious of Deleuze-GuattariChapter 9. The Unconscious in Zen and Transpersonal PsychologySatori, Peak Experience, and the Unconscious in Zen and Abraham MaslowThe Unconscious in Zen and Ken Wilber's Spectrum of ConsciousnessD. T. Suzuki, G. I. Gurdjieff, and the Zen Unconscious of Hubert BenoitSuperconsciousness in Zen and Roberto Assagioli's PsychosynthesisPsychedelic Experience and Suzuki's Zen Critique of Drug-Induced Satori Epilogue: D. T. Suzuki and Jean Gebser on Zen Satori as a Shift to the Integral Structure of Consciousness as Openness, Radiance, and Transparency Abbreviations for the Works of D. T. Suzuki and Related TextsNotesBibliographyIndices

"This book presents a comprehensive study of D. T. Suzuki's Zen philosophy and philosophical psychology in relation to his Buddhist understanding of the unconscious. A major contribution to the field of Japanese philosophy, it gives a clear overview of Suzuki's central idea of Zen self-awareness while exploring its relativity to a number of great thinkers from the history of European philosophy." — Takeshi Morisato, University of Edinburgh