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Podcast – Zen Confusion in the Martial Arts

Posted by Jeffrey M. Brooks on September 11, 2019 in Martial Arts Ideas, Martial Arts Stories |No Comments

D.T. Suzuki, who introduced Zen to the west, blamed the devotion of Zen priests to militant Japanese imperialism in the years leading up to World War II, on the fact that the priests were uneducated.
Zen priests, he said “…have no knowledge or learning and therefore are unable to think… independently…” (Cited by Brian Victoria, in Zen at War.) Many modern Zen practitioners…

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