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monk asked:


As a youth I practiced the yogic tradition with my family, it was wonderful. As a teenager I became profoundly christian. I spent years in true devotion, church work, missionary work there is no room here for the spiritual experiences. I now study zen buddhism. I have experienced several awakenings which have cemented this zen tradition, now it is deepening. I’m not certain what is happening to me. Zen training is revealing that truth is completely individual and could never be otherwise. This would mean a being, a sentient being cannot follow another sentient being into truth. Truths are gateways we pass through alone. We may set a light beside these pathways but that is all. Our Lord Jesus Christ set a blinding light beside for us, Buddha set his light and so on. I have wasted half my life thinking I could follow others to truth. This is why each of us feels so correct in doing what we feel is right. Only in this way can a higher power add upon what has been learned. This is so?
Thankyou…

Wyatt

CevnLDSNewbie asked:


I’ve been a practicing Zen Buddhist for many years, and recently converted to the Mormon Church. I hold the Mormon Church to be the true church of Christ. I also hold Zen to be the true practice of Buddhism. So my person practice is both, as neither threatens the other.

If anyone else has this spiritual practice, how do you seek affinity between the two paths?

Christopher

fancypantsy asked:


Assuming that this category includes all religions/spiritual beliefs, my question is for those who study either buddhism or zen…..I’d like to know what your experience was/what it was like if you have ever attended a spiritual retreat in either of the two.
Thank you.

Tristan

peacedevi asked:


Do you think that Christians can also be Zen Buddhists?

As I understand it, most Zen Buddhists do not worship Buddha as a god. The practice of Buddhist meditation is exactly like some of the most spiritual Christians’ description of prayer without words. Breath prayer has been an ancient practice for Christians.

How many passages in the Bible speak of mindfulness, of staying awake and aware? How many tools does modern Christianity as practiced by most protestants in America really given us to be able to do that?

Zen Buddhists, do you think that Christians belief in a God by necessity means that they (we) can’t also practice Zen Buddhism?

Charles