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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: bnelson44

Of course you can adore Jesus in Zen. You can ask God for salvation in Zen. Don't take it so seriously.


17 posted on 01/22/2006 6:44:51 PM PST by fat city ("The nation that controls magnetism controls the world.")
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To: bnelson44
Instead you must abandon all desires and all needs.

What about the desire for enlightenment? Or for peace? Or food? Why aren't Zen masters starving to death?

All I can say is, I'll take Christ over the "enlightened far East" any day.

135 posted on 01/23/2006 6:26:16 AM PST by TradicalRC (No longer to the right of the Pope...)
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