Sublime

Teitaro Suzuki, unofficial lay master of Zen Buddhism, humorous offbeat scholar, and about the most gentle and enlightened person I have ever known; for he combined the most complex learning with utter simplicity. He was versed in Japanese, English, Chinese, Sanskrit, Tibetan, French, Pali, and German, but while attending a meeting of the Buddhist

Zen might be a very dangerous medicine in a social context where convention is weak, or, at the other extreme, where there is a spirit of open revolt against convention ready to exploit Zen for destructive purposes.

Chaque communauté est exposée à deux dangers opposés : la sclérose, par trop de discipline et de respect pour la tradition, d’une part ; d’autre part, la dissolution ou la soumission à des conquêtes étrangères dues à la croissance d’un individualisme et d’une indépendance personnelle qui rend la coopération impossible.

—Alan Watts, The Way of Zen