Correct; but the modernist deviation is the work of time. Timeless truth can and does speak through individuals born into the modern age, but nonetheless there are certain confusions and heterodoxies peculiar to the modern age, which distort and misrepresent perrenial wisdom.Kunga wrote: What attracted me to the Suzuki quote was the similarity of :
First there is a mountain...
Then there is no mountain...
Then there is...
Same analogy
As far as being "modern" or "ancient" , true wisdom is timeless, and can be transmitted regardless of past/present/future, as time is a tool and ultimately non-existent...
It is actually a good quotation. Perceptive of essentials. The intention was not to criticise Suzuki, but to caution against the error of anti-rationalism, which some might derive from that particular quotation. So many people have been mislead by the general idea that transcendence means a kind of vague uniformity or nullification: unicity nullifies duality, absolute reality nullifies relative reality, independent being nullifies dependent being, singularity nullifies multiplicity; or in this case, rational thought, in transcendence, is nullified by what we might call direct perception or Intuition, wheras it is actually just subordinated to Intuition. The point is to soar above reason, not to abandon it, which is to sink below it. We keep reason fully intact, just as reason keeps sensation.
Likewise, the daughters of time, while illusory in nature, are not nullified by the transcedence of time; they do not lose any value, truth, beauty or goodness that shines through them. Time was made to manifest eternity, just as the darkness glorifies the light.