A comparison by D. S. Savage of two ways towards mystical enlightenment based on ' The Way of a Pilgrim'
(anon.) translated by R. M. French and ' Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel translated by R. F. E. Hull
. with Norman Wynn and Blaise Wyndham
Produced by David Thomson
This programme is an experiment in parallel presentation. Two first-hand accounts of ventures into practical mysticism are set side by side: the first, a nineteenth-centurv Russian narrative of a wandering Pilgrim, a simple man, in search of a teacher in the art of interior prayer; the second, a contemporary
German philosopher's account of his instruction in the art of archery by a Japanese Zen master.
Although at first glance these narratives seem to have little in common with one another, nevertheless it may be that by this method of presentation a significant resemblance will emerge.