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104 Appendix I: Western Interest in Buddhist Meditationand has lost his basic humanity. Man, surrounded by machines,mass communication and organized systems, has becomealienated from freedom and spontaneity. Buddhist religiouspractice based in meditation seems unusually well-suited tobreak the deadlock facing modern man. Science has nowemerged into the atomic age and entered the space age. Originallybased on humanism, science gradually came to be consideredall-powerful and autonomous from religion and humanity.In this way, it moved in the wrong direction, luringmankind toward destruction. Buddhist meditation seems tohave a vital role in correcting this false tendency of science.Although the world is said to be moving toward a thaw, the twoideological camps are still in sharp conflict. The Third Worldnations are caught in the middle, wavering from left to right.Buddhism offers the possibility of basically undercutting thisdualism. It can help man overcome the conflict of ideologiesfor the first time. The West tends to emphasize the individualover the group. But even in individual man, there are twofacets. They are the false self and the True Self. No matter howmuch the individual is emphasized, it does no good if theemphasis is on the false self. Through the True Self the dignityof man emerges. In Christianity, God is worshiped as Òanabsolute other.Ó He is separated from man. Zen, on the otherhand, returns man to this original wholeness and shows him hisTrue Self. In Buddhism, the True Self is called Buddha Nature.
a. Reasons for Western Interest in Buddhist Meditation 105Buddha Nature includes manÕs religious nature and truehumanity. It is deeply involved in human dignity. Thinkers inEurope and America have sensed this. Zen, with its emphasison oneÕs True Self, has given them new insights into humanpotentiality. Christianity talks about a future kingdom ofheaven and makes it the dwelling place of the soul. But Zenconsiders this too far removed from the actual world.The practice of Zen helps man live fully in this world.This is called the expression of full function. It stresses thepresent rather than future, this place rather than heaven. It aimsat making the Pure Land come alive in the present moment. Inreligion the most important thing is not miracles or the supernatural.Religion of course transcends the world of science, butit should not conflict with science.Any religion that hopes to appeal to modern man mustembrace science as well as transcend it. Zen does this. Inconclusion, the practice of Zen: 1) frees man from enslavementto machines and re-establishes his humanity, 2) eases mentaltension and brings peace of mind and 3) enables man to use hisfull potentialities in daily life. From these grow the characteristicsof simplicity, profundity and vitality that have attracted somany Westerners to Zen Buddhism.
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