Seeing Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek through Shunryn Suzuki's Zen Mind

禪是透過日本傳到西方並在美國生根立足。既然鈴木俊隆禪師是促使禪廣傳於美國的重要人物，我在此論文中所引用的禪思想將主要是根據鈴木俊隆禪師的代表作－禪者的初心。任何閱讀過安妮迪勒的《漢畔天問》的人都會對她觀察大自然萬物的能力印象深刻。在首章中，安妮迪勒潛近細觀青蛙的那一景深具代表性並廣受評論家的喜愛與引用。令人訝異地，鈴木俊隆禪師因為青蛙的坐姿及其展現的敏銳與自然，也對青蛙特別的讚嘆。與鈴木俊隆禪師同屬曹洞派的日本禪師Dogen曾說過：「學佛說是學自己，學自己說是忘掉自我，而要忘掉自我就要被萬物啟發教化」。我們大部分的人對萬物視而不見，但安妮迪勒及像鈴木俊隆禪師那樣有禪心的人卻有著十分敏銳的觀照能力。在本論文中我將點出安妮迪勒如何在漢溪細觀自然界眾生並藉由禪的思想闡明其所觀看到的自然意義。

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安妮迪勒；溪畔天問；禪；觀；自然寫作；鈴木俊隆禪師

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From Japan, Zen came to the West and took a firm foothold in the United States. Since Shunryn Suzuki is the most influential figure to make Zen wide spread in America, the Zen approach Tm going to use here is primarily based on Shunryn Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Anyone who reads Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek would be impressed by her power of seeing the nature. In the opening chapter, the episode Dillard approached the frog is especially famous and widely quoted by many critics. Surprisingly, the Zen master Shunryn Suzuki praised frogs highly for their special way of sitting and their alertness. Dogen, a Japanese Zen master of the Soto school, to which Suzuki also belongs, once said, ”To study Buddhism is to study the self To study the self is to forget the self and to forget the self is to be enlightened by Ten Thousand Things.” Most of us see things without any awareness, but Dillard or a person with the Zen mind, like Suzuki, sees everything with great attention. In this paper I will point out how Dillard sees the nonhuman world at Tinker Creek and elaborate what is the nature she sees through the eyes of Zen. Hopefully, my connection between Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Zen offers readers a new viewpoint as well as enhances readers' appreciation of Annie Dillard's nature.

並列關鍵字

Annie Dillard ； Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ； Zen ； seeing ； nature writing ； Shunryn Suzuki

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Seeing Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek through Shunryn Suzuki's Zen Mind

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