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To: Coleus

Zen does not conflict with anything. That's the idea.


14 posted on 01/22/2006 6:38:36 PM PST by fat city ("The nation that controls magnetism controls the world.")
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To: fat city
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.

16 posted on 01/22/2006 6:41:59 PM PST by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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To: fat city

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.


24 posted on 01/22/2006 6:53:16 PM PST by Coleus (IMHO, The IVF procedure is immoral & kills many embryos/children and should be outlawed)
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To: fat city

Zen also does not posit anything. Everythign is absurd, everything is nothing, everything is everything.


25 posted on 01/22/2006 6:53:58 PM PST by TheGeezer
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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?)


83 posted on 01/22/2006 8:41:20 PM PST by PandaRosaMishima (she who tends the Nightunicorn)
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