If the great message of the Zen has penetrated in the West, this is largely due to the work and teaching of the Japanese teacher D.T. Suzuki. As Christmas Humphreys has written, when Dr. Suzuki speaks of the highest states of consciousness, he does it with the authority of someone who has lived what he teaches.

And what he teaches is as essential as fascinating. The reader himself can become a "Buddha", an enlightened, since the Búdico Nature is in all men and the Satori, the lighting, can be achieved at any time and in any situation of ordinary life.

Living Zen is one of D.T. Suzuki. Impregnated with a deep didactic sense, the book insurposely illustrates us about the Satori, the Koans, philosophy, art, practice and Zen culture.