/lit/ - Literature

>>4292375
Speaking of Musashi, he condensed his personal views into a short treatise called Dokkodo just before his death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dokk%C5%8Dd%C5%8D

Is zen just a gigantic troll? I been reading the works of D.T. Suzuki and so far its just a bunch of autistic monks negating one another and slapping the shit out of one another.

What the heck?

>>3619204

You cannot cut yourself off from desire any more than you can cut yourself off from life itself, except in suicide. You have to make peace with your desire and know the path of it and the path away from it to begin to understand your karma.

Of much more importance is mindfulness than anything else. Understanding your karma is the only way that you can begin to be okay with your desire and then the ability to control it.

I would try, but...my familys history down my mothers and her mothers line leands back to Scotland. If it wasn't for the Scottish I would have never been born, let alone on US soil. I also want to visit there some day and eat a haggis among other things... How big is the Zen and Theravada Buddhist community there?