With my lack of interest in too much ritual and ceremony, I doubt that I could be described as a Zen Buddhist. As far as I'm concerned, you bow once when you enter the room, and then once on your way out. The Soto group I was with also had these naming ceremonies and robes which I never really took to. However, I have stuck to(well, sort of) the Soto way of things as I never liked this Rinzai obssession with koans. Unlike Bill, I use 'zen' and Zen whichever one fits my mood at any given moment, but neither wording changes what I do Urged to kill the teacher? I may be misunderstanding your wordings here, but morals and compassion in the Hebrew sense is not where I am here. I'm not sure I understand your question completely in Buddha's grace Mel
--- On Sun, 10/7/11, Anthony Wu <[email protected]> wrote: From: Anthony Wu <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and Christianity are incompatible To: [email protected] Received: Sunday, 10 July, 2011, 12:09 AM Mel, Then how can you be a zen Buddhist while you are urged to kill your teacher? Anthony --- On Sat, 9/7/11, Mel <[email protected]> wrote: From: Mel <[email protected]> Subject: [Zen] Zen and Christianity are incompatible To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, 9 July, 2011, 7:53 PM Being a devout Christian and a practitioner of zen is basically an impossiblity. One has an actual god that one obeys without question, and the other one which is zen/Zen, doesn't in Buddha's grace Mel
