| "Is Zen a
philosophy ?" |
"Yes,
Zen is a philosophy not to think, not to feel, but to do
in this world." |
| "Is Zen a kind of
Buddhism ? " |
"Yes.
Buddha became enlightened by doing Zazen in India. That
is the beginning of Zen. Zen has been transported to China by
Bodhidharma and to Japan by several monks in the twelfth
century. But Zen practice is opened to everyone, does not
care his religion, race and sex. " |
| "Is Buddha God
?" |
"No.
He is a man. "Buddha" means the
"awakened" or "enlightened" one.
Siddhartha Gautama , the man who became the Buddha, is
thought to have lived from 563 to 483 BCE. "
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