Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

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What does it mean to get Zen "all wrong?" How do you get "all wrong" a
mind-training practice that is meant to be a pathway into the great questions:
who am I, where do I come from, what is "all this," and so on? Cage asked 
those
questions and he got his own answers. My teachers always said, Be yourself; 
get
your own answers; live your own life. Cage's teacher, DT Suzuki, put himself 
in
close proximity to Zen and Pure Land Buddhist temples all his life, but he
wasn't a "Zen master" with the black and white robes, etc., and yet he has 
been
called -- by Christmas Humphreys, who founded the London Buddhist Society, and
who ought to know -- "the most enlightened person I have met in this 
lifetime."
My apologies to the silence list because I could go on at great length and I
should probably just let the book be itself. I'm glad, though, to hear your
thoughts. --Kay Larson