Foreword
by Aldous Huxley
Preface
Foreword by Tim Barrett
1
On the General Sense of Zen Thought
2 “Good” and “Evil”
3 The Idolatry of “Salvation”
4 The Existentialism of Zen
5 The Mechanism of Anxiety
6 The Five Modes of Thought of the Natural
Man – Psychological Conditions of Satori
7 Liberty as “Total Determinism”
8 The Egotistical States
9 The Zen Unconscious
10 Metaphysical Distress
11 Seeing into One’s Own Nature – the Spectator
of the Spectacle
12 How to Conceive the Inner Task According
to Zen
13 Obedience to the Nature of Things
14 Emotion and the Emotive State
15 Sensation and Sentiment
16 On Affectivity
17 The Horseman and the Horse
18 The Primordial Error or “Original Sin”
19 The Immediate Presence of Satori
20 Passivity of the Mind and Disintegration
of our Energy
21 On the Idea of “Discipline”
22 The Compensations
23 The Inner Alchemy
24 On Humility
Epilogue
Index
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“History and anthropology
make it abundantly clear that societies composed of individuals
who think, feel, believe and act according to the most preposterous
conventions can survive for long periods of time. Statistical
normality is perfectly compatible with a high degree of folly
and wickedness … In so far as he is a psychotherapist,
the Oriental philosopher tries to help statistically normal
individuals to become normal in the other, more fundamental
sense of the word … This process of intellectual and
psycho-physical adjustment to the Nature of Things is the
‘supreme doctrine’ of Zen Buddhism, which Dr Benoit
discusses in the light of Western psychological theory and
Western psychiatric practise … This is a book that should
be read by everyone who aspires to know who he is and what
he can do to acquire such self-knowledge.” From
the Foreword by Aldous Huxley
“The Supreme Doctrine is a cogent
statement of what Zen thought had to offer the practising
Western psychiatris t … this is a book which assuredly
still speaks for itself.” T. H. Barrett, SOAS, University
of London
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