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What would your four be John?
uhhh um.... Dogen, Shakespeare, Moldbug and... Rorty maybe I'm not sure
Did u just day dogen Oh no John ......
Are you an anti-dogen zen person?
I would say I'm an anti dogen extremist. But I will say that from what I can tell you're the only sane Soto person I e ever met.
Would love to hear more about your take on zen actually? rlly tho, most soto practitioners are quite staid individuals in my experience gotta say
The problem with Soto is the "practice is enlightenment" thing. Yes, the mental states may be approximate but without authentic satori it lacks the a certain dimension of "being in your bones" or self consciousness and is instead a kind of well intentioned performative.
In the chan and song era Zen lit you often find rinzai masters like Yunmen entering the meditation hall and saying things like "what a bunch of fools!" Etc. Joshu-Rinzai is the school I'm from, which is itself small and not the same as main line rinzai.
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