Zen = Taoism
Zen Buddhism = Institutionalization of Taoism within a Buddhist frame
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Yeah I knew about the blending, but this book really surprised me with how the balance is far more Taoist than Buddhist and that Taoism too stemmed from Indian yoga that came to China 1000 years earlier, and people thought Bodhidharma was a student of Laozi.
ha, well, it's China. everyone and everything that goes to China becomes mostly Chinese within a few centuries (and sometimes sooner than that, e.g. Kublai Khan). America may have a similarly powerful cultural core too. Western Buddhism is very interesting in 21C.
the mutual compatibility of Indic and Sinic non-dualism is not surprising at all. they seem to synergize well actually, sort of covering the gaps of each other and forming a more coherent metaphysics when combined.
to map that out more clearly, and please bear with me since it's a metaphor and not meant to be a strong claim about anything, we have two really important physical principles that are mostly unaccounted for in Western metaphysics but are pointed to clearly in Eastern metaphysics
the first is deep time and evolution. this is something that the Indic traditions with their ideas of karma and dharma accounts for meaningfully. the second is the idea of entropy and thermodnyamic equilibrium. Taoism is very explicitly about this in an almost uncanny sense.
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