His Self (the true artist of life) has touched the unconscious, the source of infinite possibilities. His is 'no-mind.' Says St. Augustine,' Love God and do what you will.'...To love God is to have no self, to be of no-mind, to become 'a dead man,' to be free of the constrictive motivations of consciousness...how rich his inward life is! Because it is in direct communion with the great unconscious.... May we not call this great unknown the Cosmic Unconscious, or the source of infinite creativity wherby not only artists of every description nourish their inspirations, but even we ordinary beings are enabled, each according to his natural endowments, to turn his life into something of genuine art? - D.T. Suzuki 

 

Suzuki's "Lecture on Zen Buddhism" was extremely enlightening but very difficult reading. This is a philosophy which could save us if we could learn to "be still," to listen and see into the inner meaning of things becoming one with the spirit and the nous of the world. However, our spiritual consciousness is principally to help others, it must not be an egoic or power trip; but a genuine cosmic expansion trip into inner space.

 

Dr. D.T. Suzuki was, without doubt, a foremost authority on Zen Buddhism. Born in Japan, he had taught in universities of the United States and Europe. Suzuki's deeply perceptive eye penetrates into the very bedrock of Reality and eternity (Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist: the Eastern and Western Way).