D.T. Suzuki. 
 
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. London: The Buddhist Society, 1957. Hardcover with a dust jacket. This is the 1957 reprint edition. Blue boards with gilt lettering. A small bookseller's sticker to the inside of the front board. Clipped jacket has a bit of fading to the spine. Both book and jacket are near fine.
 
After Suzuki gave 2 lectures before the Japanese emperor in 1946, Christmas Humphreys translated the great scholar's transcribed words. But Suzuki wasn't satisfied, and as he worked more on the translation for a second edition in 1947 (this is the '57 reprint of it), a thought occurred to him: why not amplify and ground his writing in contexts and ideas that would allow readers in the West to find access points into Buddhism? The rewards of Suzuki's effort include the doctrine of discrimination and non-discrimination, important to Buddhism but difficult for the mind to find without a guide like Suzuki. 
 
"From the genuinely religious point of view, the world of sense is an intellectual or conceptual reconstruction of what is immediately revealed to the spirit itself. What is more real, therefore, is the spiritual world and not the sensuous world. That this is so we realise only after hard and desperate thinking, that is, after many a vain attempt to reach ultimate reality."