Alabama school Yoga Ban

[Twilight Hue]

You don’t think Christianity is compatible with Zen?

Doesn't sound like Christianity.
Isn't God a jealous God that dosent share other beliefs and practices? In fact it forbids it?

Zen can accommodate Christians. But Zen is not Christianity nor is the inverse.

"Drop all beliefs ye who enter the gateless gate".

That's what I was told in my early days of introspection as I approached Zen Practice. Very hard to do for a Christian I would think with such an attachment to dogma.

 

[RestlessSoul]

Doesn't sound like Christianity.
Isn't God a jealous God that dosent share other beliefs and practices? In fact it forbids it?

Zen can accommodate Christians. But Zen is not Christianity nor is the inverse.

"Drop all beliefs ye who enter the gateless gate".

That's what I was told in my early days of introspection as I approached Zen Practice. Very hard to do for a Christian I would think with such an attachment to dogma.

I don’t recognise that God, and would not consider such a conception to be a requirement of Christian faith. Jealousy is a human failing.

I take the point about dogma. But would also argue that attachment to dogma is inimical to Christ’s message. Or my interpretation of it anyway.

 

[ChristineM]

Yeah, some nuts are hard to crack.

You got the nuts bit right

 

[Vinayaka]

You got the nuts bit right

Takes one to know one.