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Thursday, November 16, 2006
 
There's a documentary on Zen Buddhist scholar Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. An article on it notes:
German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), meanwhile, is said to have remarked after reading Suzuki that, "If I understand this man correctly, this is what I have been trying to say in all my writings."
This gets repeated a lot, but it is pretty apocryphal. Suzuki is not mentioned anywhere in the hundred plus volumes of Heidegger's writings. It is based on a comment in William Barrett's introduction to an anthology of Suzuki, wherein he says that someone unnamed told him that...
 
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