D.T. Suzuki is a Kanazawa-produced buddhist philosopher. He worked untiringly to bring the message of Zen, Mahāyāna and Buddhism in general, to the West, and his reputation as a scholar and gifted teacher was internationally recognized. He touched the lives of many thinkers, including Erich Fromm. The book Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis contains the papers originally presented by the Japanese buddhist philosopher and the German psychoanalyst at a workshop on that topic held in 1957 by the Department of Psychoanalysis of the Medical School of the Autonomous National University of Mexico. The work focuses on what differences there are in Eastern and Western thought regarding the nature of the human mind and our role in the knowledge. There, Suzuki explains with profound and gentle wisdom how Western materialism and intellectualism contrast with the Eastern concept of acceptance as the basis of well-being for the 'whole man'.

This study aims to develop this point of view through a comparison focused on the paradigm of knowledge between Immanuel Kant, major figure of the Enlightenment, and D.T. Suzuki, scholar of Zen Buddhism.

The topic will be the Swedish scientist and Spirit-seer Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), main character of Kant's “Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, illustrated by those of Metaphysics and Suzuki's Swedenborg and Swedenborg's View of Heaven and “Other Power”.