Zen does not conflict with anything. That's the idea.
Sure you can't adore anything in Zen. You can't ask God for salvation in Zen (there is no God). Instead you must abandon all desires and all needs. I can't see how you can say Zen does not conflict with how Jesus taught us to pray, it is almost the exact opposite.
Zen does not conflict with anything. That's the idea. >>
Jesus Christ didn't come down to live with us, suffer, shed his blood and die for nothing. There is no reason why a Catholic priest should be conducting a retreat like this. His retreats should be focused on Christ and how a person can become more like and live like Christ. The sacraments of Confession and Communion should be available daily.
I wonder how many young minds he poisoned while chairman of St. Peter's College Theology Department. And those poor parents thinking they were sending their children to a "catholic" college only to have wasted their money.
Zen also does not posit anything. Everythign is absurd, everything is nothing, everything is everything.
A Zen Master once told me, Do the opposite of what I tell you.
-So I didn't.
(do you know how many Zen Buddhists it takes to screw in a light bulb?)