Michael Goldberg

"A ZEN LIFE - D.T. Suzuki" is a 77-minute documentary about Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (1870-1966), credited with introducing Zen Buddhism to the West. A strong advocate of cross-cultural and inter-faith communication, D.T. Suzuki was highly successful at getting Westerners to appreciate the Japanese mentality, and Japanese to understand Western logic. He has said that Thomas Merton was the Westerner who best understood Zen. The effect he had on Western psychoanalysis, philosophy, religious thinking, and the arts was profound. Dr. Suzuki's message is all the more important now, in light of contemporary conflicts stemming from divergent ways of thinking. There are exclusive interviews of many people, respected in t...