/lit/ - Literature

>>2495268
You know that Zen has presence in India, China, Korea, Vietnam and Japan right? You know that each time there was translation and cultural difference to be overcome and that it evolved and has different nuances in every region and time? There is no such thing as the one authentic language and the one authentic form of Zen that can and should not be changed because any difference is Wrong according to the Gods of Dogma. It's a fluent thing. There are plenty of Western Dharma teachers these days too. If anything, the future of Buddhism might lie in the West rather than the East. There's nothing faulty about white people getting involved in an elementary practice that, while most prominent in the East in the past, could be found in Western traditions as well. It just got preserved in a more lively and practicable form there. It's much easier for a European man to adhere to Zen practice than to try to recreate Pyrrhonic ataraxia, for example.

>>2456191
Alright, sounds reasonable, man. I guess you probably like or would like the Tao Te Ching and general taoist philosophy.