The Zennist' (RSS 1.0) Posts on 'The Zennist' (RSS 2.0) Comments on 'The first church of Zen' (Atom) Comments on 'The first church of Zen' (RSS 2.0) Home Bodhidharma 's wall The tree of Chinese Zen The Zennist Going to the very heart of Zen. wall | Main | The tree of Chinese Zen » The first church of Zen 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 Religion, Weblogs, yoga, Zen | Permalink misunderstand. Shikantaza as taught in modern japanese soto Zen (and the west) is unauthentic crap Zen stuff 's Zen paintings (great site!)