JMJM and Bill Under the influence of Christianity and Christians the zen from TNH has become more religious and less zen. Retreats lack of the quality silence they used to have. The atmosphere has lost that strenght, credibility as a zen center but it has gained a massive religious public. I sincerely think that a zen center shouldn't be mixed up with Christianity or other religions in the pursue to get more public. This about saving souls I don't believe a word about it. When I want to go to the church I go to the Church. No problem. When I want to go to the zen center I'd like to go to the zen center free from any religious influence. In fact I go less and less to the sangha and more to the church. And this is because the church keeps its autenticity, its silence, while the sangha is more like meeting the coffee bar friends. Still nice though. Mayka Mayka
--- On Fri, 25/3/11, Bill! <[email protected]> wrote: From: Bill! <[email protected]> Subject: [Zen] Re: Christian Zen To: [email protected] Date: Friday, 25 March, 2011, 0:36 JMJM, I would be interested in participating in this. I was brought up as a Christian and have gone through a lot of Bible study. I agree wholeheartedly with your premise. If you haven't already read it, I'd suggest you find a copy of a small book called THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ZEN. It's theme is the same as the one you've described. ...Bill! --- In [email protected], Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 <chan.jmjm@...> wrote: > > Good Morning Steve and anyone who is interested to help, > > I wanted to incorporate a zen way to deepen the "Christian faith" on our > websites, but I don't know the Bible enough. > > The intent is... > > * To show that Chan/zen and christian faith are one of the same. > * Enabling the reading of the bible in a different light. > * Deepen our connection with God. > > It could be a page or two, or an entire website, (if you have the time > to write the content and the newsletter). I can set it up. > > This will be interlinked with http://www.chan-meditation.org. It is now > top ranked in google, bing, yahoo with keyword -- chan meditation. (no > quotation mark). > > Also because we will be promoting Chan meditation beginning in April/May > with online Adword. > > Many Thanks, > JM > > -- > Be Enlightened In This Life - We ALL Can > http://chanjmjm.blogspot.com > http://www.heartchan.org >
