24-11-2020
Yasuhiko Genku Kimura is a gifted integral philosopher in the true sense of the term “integral” which has been usurped by the reductionists and reduced to a formula for categorization, now partaking in (what Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen calls) the “reductionist nightmare.” He boldly dispenses with the dry generalizations of the academic, religious, and political establishments whose dogmatism makes any of their claims that they have something special and different to say sound hollow.
Many hours of our delightful and stimulating conversations have made me aware of the depth of his understanding not only of Zen and Tao, his basic background, but also Buddhist and Hindu philosophies in general and even Western philosophical traditions. He is more Aristotelian than Platonic in his thinking style, which is actually rare amongst Eastern and spiritual philosophers.
Through our discussions, I came to know that Yasuhiko’s unflagging enthusiasm and radicalism (in the original sense of penetrating to the root) stems from and is nourished by the recognition of the triune (three-in-one) organization of the World (the human individual already and always included) that is nothing but static but a ceaselessly active web of resonances that may vibrate at many different frequencies.