The Appeal of Zen in the United States

Zen has been summed up in four statements. A direct transmission outside scriptures and apart from tradition. No dependence on words and letters. Direct pointing to the human mind and seeing into one's own nature and becoming Buddha. That is becoming enlightened, awakened from the normal hypnosis under which almost all of us go round like some nambules. Its extraordinary how much interest has existed in Zen in the U.S., especially since the war with Japan.