All warriors are not monks, and not all monks are warriors.
All soldiers are not warriors, and all warriors are not soldiers.
These separations by occupation are what cause wars.
Who realizes this?
KG
On 10/12/2012 4:17 PM, Joe wrote:
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.
