Statistical normality is perfectly compatible with a high degree of folly and wickedness. . .
In so far as he is a psychotherapist, the Oriental philosopher tries to help statistically normal individuals to become normal in the other, more fundamental sense of the word . . . This process of intellectual and psycho-physical adjustment to the Nature of Things is the 'supreme doctrine' of Zen Buddhism, which Dr Benoit discusses in the light of Western psychological theory and Western psychiatric practice. This is a book that should be read by everyone who aspires to know who he is and what he can do to acquire such self-knowledge. The Supreme Doctrine is a cogent statement of what Zen thought had to offer the practising Western psychiatrist . . . Half a century may have passed . . .