[Buddha-l] Re: Vipassana?

[Michael Paris]

>From my very limited understanding, Zen is inextricable from Japanese
culture. 

Wasn't there a long thread more or less pertaining to that a few months
back?


Michael


--- Benito Carral <bcarral at kungzhi.org> wrote:

> On Sunday, October 16, 2005, Richard P. Hayes wrote:
> 
> > There is just more mumbo jumbo about enlightenment in
> > Zen,  in  addition to which you have to put up with a
> > totalitarian  master  who abuses you and tells you it
> > is  good  for you. If the goal is to become liberated
> > form  dukkha,  vipassana  is the method of choice. If
> > your goal is to become an obedient robot, go for Zen.
> 
>    This  is  plain  nonsense.  I  have  been practicing
> Chinese  Zen  for  almost 20 years and have never found
> something  like that. However I have seen some Japanese
> roshis and their acolytes playing a similar game to the
> one that you describe here.
> 
>    Best wishes,
> 
>    Beni



	
		
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