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 I sometimes think American Zen centers are becoming more like Christian churches.  There is
“Sangha” and the minister, the Zen master wearing his twenty pounds of robes who leads his
.  The only “book” the Zen master reveres is Dogen Zenji’s Shobogenzo (
We can think of it as the New Testament of Zen—not Old Testament Zen, the sources for which
 The more a Zen parishioner does shikantaza the more Buddha they become.  If
’t stress enough, is as important to Zen as the Nicene Creed is to Christianity which still serves
 One of the great Saints of the modern Zen church, Zen master Dainin Katagiri, helps us to
 see where the new Zen church with its New Testament are heading.  Pay careful
, mentioned by somebody else.  Dogen Zenji warns us not to believe Buddha’s or
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misunderstand. Shikantaza as taught in modern japanese soto Zen (and the west) is unauthentic crap 
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