Zen is certainly the most Chinese of Buddhist sects because it is very close to Confucianism. This is according to Steven Heine and Dale Wright in their book, Zen Ritual (p. 264). While we Westerners often assume that Zen's structure is Buddhist it is really not the case. It runs very close to Confucianism. How the Dharma is transmitted, for example, has a biological, procreative dimension which leads back to Confucianism. Here, for example, is the means of giving birth to a new Buddha.
"It takes place inside the room (shitsunai). Outsiders normally have no right to talk about it. Outsiders can only see and talk about other dimensions. Nonetheless, some of the secrets are known. Medieval Zen dharma transmission documents abound with biological terminology. For example, failure to find a proper heir is called "the sin of cutting off the Buddha seed" (dan bush no tsunami). This biological terminology is not just metaphorical. In some rituals, the teacher and heir write a portion of the transmission documents with ink that they make by mixing their own blood together. They get this blood by taking a small knife and cutting the underside of their tongues. The tongue is the organ by which a Buddha gives birth to a new Buddha by teaching the dharma" (p. 265).
It should be obvious to anyone familiar with the Pali canon that a ritual like this never took place. This is purely a Chinese invention which stems from Confucianism. Other forms of Confucianism in Zen are those of a "legal dimension." Again, I quote from Zen Ritual.
"Parents have a legal obligation to discipline their children. If the children break the law, then the parents can be punished. Likewise, the parents have a moral obligation to feed, clothe, shelter, and educate their children. And the children must reciprocate. Children have a legal obligation to obey their parents. As they become older and able to earn a living, children have a moral obligation to feed, clothe, shelter, and care for their parents. Modern societies no longer recognize religious jurisdiction. In premodern times, though, Buddhist monasteries governed their own residents with full legal authority. Teachers had the legal right to discipline and beat their disciples. And monks and nuns had the legal obligation to obey their teachers. Secular courts could punish teachers if their disciples broke the law" (p. 266).
In other respects not covered in the blog the stink of Confucianism still shadows Zen in which the Zen Sangha is more like an old Chinese family which in no way resembles the true Triple Gem Sangha which is wholly spiritual in content being made up of those who are ‘stream entered’ to nirvana which, by the way, was open to anyone.
pardon you, my wack-a-doodle son, but 2 of my friends are jews.
I love the Jews....
If the jews decided to nuke all the muslims and roll their tanks into their lands,...
I would be the FIRST PERSON to volunteer myself to help them in so doing.
Aryan does not = Racist/Nazi, my mental midget child.
lux et veritas
Posted by: Java Junkie | December 12, 2011 at 07:51 PM
Junkie, when are you going to come to the "there never was a holocaust" -part. I'm sure everybody here's waiting for it as eagerly as I am.
Posted by: AryanScrewball | December 11, 2011 at 07:12 PM
by the way, having read ALL of Teslas works, he concludes in breif, that magnetism is in reality bipolar (N/S) gravitational wavefronts
Who/why give a shit about magnetism? because the person who really grasps what a magnetic field 'is', grasps the entire nature of the cosmos, of the Absolute/the One.
Posted by: Java Junkie | December 11, 2011 at 04:07 PM
ALL people who think highly of professors etc, ie the 'intelligencia', WATCH THIS VIDEO, this is the modern day so called "guru" on magnetism...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM
Feynman is a TOTAL F-ING moron, it amazes me that people continue to praise this GD moron. He squirms and wiggles like a worm on a hotplate when trying to explain "action at a distance" ie magnetism, the only person who REALLY knew that answer was Tesla, and he didnt explain it very well
It amazes people (I am the 'magnet man') when i tell them NOBODY ON EARTH knows the nature of magnetism/action at a distance AAD
QED strange theory of light and matter (by Feynman himself) on magnetism doesnt explain a GD thing, his best BS qaucka-doodle explaination is "virtual photons" pathetic horsecrap.
Its more plausable to say tiny invisible birds attract/repel
FEYNMAN is a total GD moron, hes a pontificator, a conjecture-ruminator, at best he is a linear thinking dipshayt product of colleges, ie educated morons.
there is NO MORE PERFECT EXAMPLE of idiot-scum-professor pseudo-intellectual trash than this video... make sure you watch his body language when he squirmmmmmms and wriths and wiggles and twitches (= unintelligent DUMB-ASSSSS)
Posted by: Java Junkie | December 11, 2011 at 03:59 PM