Cool story bro.

Yeah, I think there's a lot of truth to that.

I love that this has been the top post for 2 months.

I'm hoping to get back to a more consistent stream of content creation and then I can cross post here.

But ... ya know .. "Life" ... we'll see how that goes.

What happens when one person's "right" and another person's "right" come into conflict?

Wrekt.

You quoted BaiZhang.

Would be nice if you understood him too.

That was a solid episode.

Edit: The most recent one

🙏

You're no more a "man" than you are a "dude", dude.

Words are flexible.

I'm not a man and if you truly think that downvoting and absurdist wordplays are the same as anti-trans bigotry, then just fuck off. There's really nothing more to say. We simply don't occupy the same reality.

If this is your attitude towards bigotry that doesn't affect you personally, then fuck off.

I have a feeling you're not gonna fuck off though. I have a feeling you're going to continue your support of bigotry towards Zen and pretend like it's justice.

That's called "righteous hatred". It leads to lynching.

Enjoy!

Nobody here, on raddle, is oppressing you because of your zen.

That's debatable, but, fortunately, that has nothing to do with my point.

I believe that is known as a "red-herring".

For us, bigotry is not some intellectual exercise but lived reality and it's deeply offensive to see how forcefully you contort yourself into a position of a victim whenever fool cracks a dad joke.

I don't think that is a fair characterization of the interaction.

Fool said:

Zazen is not zen, too many characters used when spelling. Two extra in Roman letters, one extra in Hiragana and Kanji.

Ewk said:

What's interesting to me is how people try to cover for racial and religious bigotry and by playing word games to make it seem like a bigotry is as casual a thing as spelling.

Fool has a history of doing exactly that.

It would be like ... as Ewk alluded to ... someone continuing to make bathroom jokes to a trans person.

Your (plural) reactions to fool's comments are absolutely unhinged and only demonstrate how little you understand what bigotry is and what type of effects it has.

Yeah, well, ya know, that's just like, your opinion man.

For all the talk about how zen followers were oppressed, it's in fact the two of you who make an absolute mockery of this injustice.

See above.

No ... if I'm understanding Ewk correctly, the "bigotry" there is "zazen"; namely: the claims by Eihei Dogen regarding "zazen", the Japanese word for "zuochan"--originally a Zen meme--which Dogen misappropriated in order to prop up his own esoteric Buddhist religion, placing "zazen" at the center of it and claiming that his concentration exercise was the practice of Buddhas and Zen Masters and fabricating a direct lineage to them.

Furthermore, in both Japan and China, Buddhist meditation-worshipers of all kinds have always demonstrated bigotry against Zen students.

Being told that you have to accept "zazen" as part of your tradition because Japanese frauds said so is a form of bigotry. It's like telling Catholics that their religion is forbidden unless they acknowledge Joseph Smith as a saint.

Ewk's example is a transgender person being told to "just use" the bathroom of their [insert correct term here] assigned gender?, because "going to the bathroom" is "just a matter of standing up or sitting down."

That's the same kind of bigotry expressed when someone says "What's the big deal about zazen?" "Why not just sit?"

It's like saying, "What's the big deal with being a sex predator?" -- which indeed seems to have been the attitude of zazen churches in the West at various times.

Is it insignificant to insist, without informing yourself, that the Zen tradition is what sex-predators and frauds say it is and not what history says it is?

I don't read Ewk as saying that the dad joke was bigoted ...

What's interesting to me is how people try to cover for racial and religious bigotry and by playing word games to make it seem like a bigotry is as casual a thing as spelling.

He's saying how flippancy about the subject of zazen covers for the significance of the bigotry.

Like sitting down or standing up to piss.

Which books have you redd which legitimize zazen?

If that's how you define "hierarchy" then "fraud" is a hierarchy too.

So are "hints".

You sound confused.

I absolutely encourage people who are interested in the sorts of Western New Age drivel that you sponsor in f/zenarchism to go there instead of here.

The goal here is to study Zen.

You guys can do whatever you want over there.

See?

I won.

You're a tool of mainstream manufactured consent ... congrats.

I bet you can't say how Zen was "heavily influenced" by it.

I bet you just have a vague idea that the two are related based on Western appropriation and pop culture.

Did I win?

Most of what people call "taosim" these days is a Western appropriation, but yeah, I love it.

It started me on my journey to learning about Zen.

I had a lot of positive experiences getting high and listening to this: https://youtu.be/Jbu-OTEHnf8

That's something you made up, probably because of your strong feelings about Ewk.

Almost nothing in the OP has anything to do with Zen, just FYI.

inshallah

You use this too?

I love how it sounds and how it triggers bigots

I'm also very sorry to have pwned you. 🙏🏼

We'll see.