This blog is deeply indebted to and partly in devotion to the late D.T. Suzuki who served as a great ambassador to the West in transplanting and making available the subject of Buddhism to this difficult audience we often call 'The West'.

Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki was born in Japan, 1869 and was, during his lifetime, the single greatest contributor of Zen Buddhism to the West; some even call him the great Ambassador of Zen. His work on Zen Buddhism in English covers twelve or more books, written fluently and with authority. Though he was not a priest of any particular Buddhist sect he is still revered and honored to this day in every temple in Japan. Christmas Humphrey's, in his forward to "Essays in Zen Buddhism: First Series" wrote: "When he speaks of the higher stages of consciousness he speaks as a man who dwells therein, and the impression he makes on those who enter the fringes of his mind is that of a man who seeks for the intellectual symbols wherewith to describe a state of awareness which lies 'beyond the intellect'".