A Study of Suzuki Daisetsu's Spiritual Self-awakening(<Special Issue>Spirituality)

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  • 鈴木大拙の霊性的自覚の一考察(<特集>スピリチュアリティ)
  • 鈴木大拙の霊性的自覚の一考察
  • スズキ ダイセツ ノ レイセイテキ ジカク ノ イチ コウサツ

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Suzuki Daisetsu used "spirituality" as a word equivalent to religion, and also thought it equal to religious consciousness or experience in itself. "Spiritual self-awakening" were the words he used to properly express what he thought. In other words, spirituality is self-awakening and self-awakening is spirituality, where self-awakening is a pure self-awakening to absolute oneness, the wisdom of Non-discrimination. In contrast, intellect involves "discrimination" whose nature is duality. Therefore, spiritual self-awakening becomes active where intellect itself dies, and is newly reborn. That is also where the "discrimination of non-discrimination," Daisetsu's original words, really acts, and the meaning or value of our selves and the world in which they live is radically converted. With this, a real religious life begins. Spiritual self-awakening in itself has universality, but it always manifests itself only through individual people. It, however, can also be special, and Japanese spiritual self-awakening is one special form of it. Finally, I will refer briefly to the relation between Daisetsu's spiritual self awakening and the recent problem of spirituality.

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