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From: tp0x+@CS.CMU.EDU (Thomas Price)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.eastern
Subject: Re: Are Zen enlightened people superior?
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Date: 6 Jan 91 22:10:11 GMT
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David Sigeti:
>This is just a note to clear up a common confusion between two
>well-known personalities in American Zen.  
Me:
>   Perhaps I misunderstood my copy of Shunryu Suzuki's "Living By Zen"
>
>and later,
>
>   Or, John Cage's story about Suzuki giving a lecture:
>
>I am pretty sure that John Cage's story is about D.T. Suzuki.
>D.T. Suzuki was a student of Rinzai Zen who wrote many books
>
>Shunryu Suzuki was someone else.  He was a roshi in the Soto
>school who came to the U.S. in 1959 to minister to a immigrant

Quite right. I have a copy of S.S.'s "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" right next 
my copy of D.S.'s "Living by Zen" on my shelf. I mixed them up.

Tom