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Zen

In Our Time: Religion

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Zen and the Art of Archery

Diti suzuki was part of a late nineteenth century, early twentieth century reconsideration of the zen tradition. All japanese buddhist groups came up with ways to contribute to the nationmodernization, nationalization and t eventually military effort - i'm not sure there was anything distinctly zen about that. There is no place within official zen ideology to really talk about how, say, following moral precepts contributes to enlightenment.

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