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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.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Cover Art
Introduction
Part One. The Unconscious in Zen Theory and Practice
Chapter 1. Suzuki's Zen Doctrine of Cosmic Unconscious
No-Mind as the Unconscious
The Unconscious as Emptiness
The Unconscious as Indra's Net
The Unconscious as the Storehouse Consciousness
The Unconscious as Ordinary Mind
Suzuki's Zen Map of the Unconscious
The Mu Koan and Other Zen Meditation Techniques for Accessing the Unconscious
Chapter 2: The Unconscious in Suzuki's Zen Aestheticism
Zen Aestheticism in Japanese Culture
Suzuki and Nishida on Beauty as Muga or Ecstasy
Chapter 3. The Unconscious in Zen and Bushidō: The Religio-Aesthetic Way of the Martial Arts
The Art of Swordsmanship
The Art of Archery
Suzuki's "Samurai Zen" in Critical Perspective
Chapter 4. The Unconscious in Zen and Geidō: The Religio-Aesthetic Way of the Fine Arts
Sumie Ink Painting
Tea Ceremony
Haiku Poetry
The Impact of Suzuki's Zen Aestheticism on the Avant-Garde Artworld
Part Two: Zen and Western Models of the Unconscious
Chapter 5. The Unconscious in Zen and American Thought
Zen and William James
Zen and A. N. Whitehead
Chapter 6. The Unconscious in Zen and German Philosophy
The Abyss in Jacob Boehme's Philosophical Mysticism
The Monadology of G. W. F. Leibniz
Obscure Representations in the Transcendental Idealism of Immanuel Kant
The Unconscious in the Aesthetic Idealism of F. W. J. Schelling
The Grand Synthesis in Eduard von Hartmann's Philosophy of the Unconscious
Chapter 7. The Unconscious in Zen and German Psychology
Zen and Freudian Psychoanalysis
Erich Fromm on Zen and Psychoanalysis
Zen and Jungian Psychology
Zen, the Jungian Psychology of Kawai Hayao, and the Fiction of Murakami Haruki
Chapter 8. The Unconscious in Zen and French Though
Rancière and Suzuki on the Aesthetic Unconscious
Zen, Derrida, and Lacan on the Unconscious as a Möbius Band
Zen and Sartre on the Transparency of Consciousness
Zen and the Rhizomatic Unconscious of Deleuze-Guattari
Chapter 9. The Unconscious in Zen and Transpersonal Psychology
Satori, Peak Experience, and the Unconscious in Zen and Abraham Maslow
The Unconscious in Zen and Ken Wilber's Spectrum of Consciousness
D. T. Suzuki, G. I. Gurdjieff, and the Zen Unconscious of Hubert Benoit
Superconsciousness in Zen and Roberto Assagioli's Psychosynthesis
Psychedelic 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 Texts
Notes
Bibliography
Indices
