Thanks so much for this! I've read and been helped by your *The Ox-Herder and the Good Shepherd* and would like to know more of such things. I've now ordered Suzuki's *The Zen Doctrine of No-Mind*. Detachment, I'm finding, does not come any easier with age, and your recommendation of this documentary came at a needful time.
It did surprise me, I must say, to hear Suzuki give an answer to a question about violence (toward the end of the film) that I might have expected from Robert McNamara or another cold warrior; I wonder how Merton might have responded. Perhaps it's relevant that my own attitudes toward war and violence have been shaped for all time by the Vietnam War and subsequent wars, and that these particular horrors hadn't occurred when Suzuki made his statement. Nevertheless . . .
In all events, many thanks again; I'm very grateful.
Thanks so much for this! I've read and been helped by your *The Ox-Herder and the Good Shepherd* and would like to know more of such things. I've now ordered Suzuki's *The Zen Doctrine of No-Mind*. Detachment, I'm finding, does not come any easier with age, and your recommendation of this documentary came at a needful time.
It did surprise me, I must say, to hear Suzuki give an answer to a question about violence (toward the end of the film) that I might have expected from Robert McNamara or another cold warrior; I wonder how Merton might have responded. Perhaps it's relevant that my own attitudes toward war and violence have been shaped for all time by the Vietnam War and subsequent wars, and that these particular horrors hadn't occurred when Suzuki made his statement. Nevertheless . . .
In all events, many thanks again; I'm very grateful.
Link seems to have stopped working . I think this is it - but apologies if it’s the wrong one…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_c9RyQHOpI
Thank you. I'll replace the link in the post!
What a tremendous life documentary!
Thank you, an excellent recommendation