Zen Buddhism and its Influence on Japanese Culture.

Lucid dreaming: Effects of culture in a U.S. American sample.

“…They found a lower frequency of lucid dreaming among the Japanese students, even after controlling for dream recall frequency, which was lower in the Japanese sample as well. This finding might seem unexpected because of the prevalence of Buddhist teachings in Japanese culture (Suzuki, 1979). Research has found that meditation practices lead to increased lucid dream frequency (Baird, Riedner, Boly, Davidson, & Tononi, 2019;Sparrow, Hurd, Carlson, & Molina, 2018;Stumbrys, Erlacher, & Malinowski, 2015), and thus, we might predict that people living in a culture that values meditation (like Japan) would have a higher frequency of lucid dreaming than people living in a culture that does not attach a special value to meditation (like Germany).…”

Unaccomplished Desire for Japanese Aesthetics in Tachihara Masaaki's Novels

“…Plausibly Japanese elements of culture such as the tea ceremony, flower arrangement, and calligraphy are influenced by Zen. Suzuki Daisetsu, in Zen Buddhism and Its Influence on Japanese Culture, states that "Zen finds its inevitable association with art but not with morality (21)," 13 and studies its influences on Japanese people's love toward nature, Noh drama, and tea ceremony. Suzuki does not examine its influence on Japanese gardens in detail, but in the chapter "Rikyii and Other Tea-Men," he refers to Mus6 Soseki as a Zen Buddhist who engaged in garden building and Rikyii as a tea-man who instructed sabi (peace or serenity) in the roji (tea house garden).…”