Tag: zen
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The “men and mountains” story has an interesting history that reveals much about John Cage’s relationship to Zen Buddhism. What he presented as a classic Zen saying was actually his own unique variant, one that took it away from its Zen roots.
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John Cage often described a drawing that D. T. Suzuki drew of the structure of the mind. I’ve found a possible source for that drawing.
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I’ve just posted a new essay on “The origin of John Cage’s Zen” that lays out my case for R. H. Blyth, not D. T. Suzuki, who introduced Cage to Zen. It’s a product of my recent lecture on Zen and John Cage. In preparing that, I took a deeper dive into the Blyth’s work.…
