Bill,
I think Samurai espoused and exploited Zen; "Zen" has nothing to be proud of in
the Samurai, who came rather late to the party, IMO.
In Chinese Ch'an, there are no Samurai. There are "K'ung Fu". ;-)
--Joe / Guo-Xiang
> William Rintala <brintala@...> wrote:
>
> Zen does not teach nonviolence though.
>
> As I recall the Japanese Samurai practiced Zen.
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