/lit/ - Literature

>>2494257
I've been looking into Seung Sahn today, a Korean master who is partly responsible for bringing Zen to the West. Highly interesting and humorous. There's a documentary about him on youtube if you want to get a feel of his style.

I just recently discovered the Korean counterpart and I enjoy reading about it very much. They seem a bit more hardcore than the Japanese variant. Fuck marriage, fuck possessions, fuck city dwelling and cosy shit and wander around mountains like a hermit and meditate. Which is oversimplified and not representative for the whole of Korean Zen, but I get the idea that there are more modern examples of serious practice there than coming from Japan.

Also, Seung Sahn esthablished a lot of Zen Centers in the West, so there might be a good chance for you to practice with his former students. I'm thinking about getting some of his written work at the moment, since the snippets I've read of it were great and clear and to the point.