Thread 24641254

How do you become a Zen Buddhist? Books for this?

Just sit, that's it. There's no "becoming" anything.

>>24641254 (OP)
>>24641258
Chan/zen is very much the “just do it” school of Buddhist philosophy.

>>24641254 (OP)
>Books for this?
Everyday Zen or Nothing Special by Charlotte Joko Beck.

>become
You've already figured it out friend.
>be
>come

Enlightenment isn't achieved by browsing 4chan, retard

>>24641254 (OP)
Zen Flesh Zen Bones
Gateless Gate
Journey to the West
Monkey! (dub, tv show, 2 series, Japan)
Zen Comics
Idres Shah's Mulla Nasrudin books

Buy a book
but do not
read it

>>24641254 (OP)
I. SIT DOWN
I. GIVE UP

study, pray, work and adhere to dharma. do not be lazy, greedy or wrathful

if you live on the west coast there is a chan monestary in norcal. basically just zen for chinamen. actually adhering to zen/chan principles is pretty rigorous, the monks that live there sleep like 6 hours a night and wake up at 3 am to meditate for 3 hours before a full day of work, like farming and all kinds of menial shit. theyre basically an all chinese commune though so hope you like learning mandarin.

>>24641254 (OP)
Step 1. Start speaking in an enigmatic manner that sounds profound to only Reddit-tier midwits. Any book on Rinzai Zen will get you there.
Step 2. Develop an aggro communication style full of ego and bombast, and go around smugly pointing out others' attachments to ego. The more self-unaware you can be while doing this, the better. Remember what Plato said to Diogenes: "How much pride you expose to view, Diogenes, by seeming not to be proud." Your goal is to be Diogenes, parading your supposed non-attachments.
Step 3: b9d4cba9b3189dd72418ed63ceda9f7cf4fc481685f658d0c65678169f600bdc (to be revealed later!)

>>24641668
Here open the gates of hell.

>>24641254 (OP)
actual monastery buddhists are griftefs and entertainers that live off of tourism

>>24641254 (OP)
Ping Ting comes for fire. Those who get it, get it.