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He next took the path toward the garden of Zen with
Deborah Love -"lovely in person and in spirit, a gifted
writer and wonderful teacher with a passionate, inquiring
mind, exceptionally intelligent and kind," she became his
second wife. For years now they had been spiritually
tutored by Soen Roshi, a Budhist master working in Ver
mont to whom this book is dedicated.
But with the sensual noise that accompanies an active
life in the West with its cultural predispositions Zen can
best be only a hobby and never a real sensitivity to life
and time. Matthiessen treks into the mountains.with the
desire-though desire is a first sin in Buddhism-to turn his
soul to OM, cosmic resonance, and lay to rest in his mind
Deborah's death in 1975 of cancer.
Matthiessen finds, and loses and reloses, the wisdom of
invisible ego on his quiet, perilous journey with Schaller.
His spiritual experiences are subdued, and written of hum
bly in the Snow Leopard; he is not pontific and does not
moralize. He pares down his prose with guarded Western
empiricism he cannot convert his nature. 'To strive for
permanence in what I think I have experienced is to miss
the point."
His Buddhist trip is not a manifest to the right way. If
nothing more it is a metaphor that successfully trans
lates his sensations on the journey into biological terre
incognito.
Implicit parallelism
Much of the parallelism is simply implicit in the rich
lore he recites -of the Himalayas, and the psychologically
mysterious natives, the decrepit and the divine, their alien
roles, their anachronistic tribalism, the history of the
people and the local religions and myths, and the unex
plainable likeness of spiritual intuitions throughout the
world and time and knowledge.
Matthiessen and Schaller part ways on the descent
from Inner Dolpo. A snow leopard crosses Schaller's path.
Matthiessen glimpses a red-black creature vanishing behind
a rock and thinks of yeti; but he never sees the leopard.
Tibet remains like a koan, an unsolvable riddle given by
one's teacher.
"I am not ready to let go," he said, "and so I shall not
resolve my koan, or see the snow leopard, that is to say,
perceive it. If a snow leopard should leap from the rock
above and manifest itself before me-then in a moment of
pure fright, out of my wits, I might truly perceive it, and
be free."
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