Surf these sites: "Zen Master Rama" Frederick Lenz, III -- An irreverent look at the community surrounding the late Rama/Frederick Lenz -- self-proclaimed "Zen Master." A Critical Review of the International Zen Association -- from Dark Zen. A Critical Review of the International Zen Association -- "The practice of Zen within the AZI is far more than a simple practice of sitting meditation. The meditation offered is loaded with and embedded into a complex ideological and authoritarian system of belief which is insidiously implanted into the participants while labelling it as "true Dharma". Butsudo Criticism of AZI -- AZI has been accused of an authoritarian and sectarian drift. Also, the AZI has been publicly claiming it is Buddhist, in particular on television. Nevertheless a number of its leaders voice the idea that AZI''s Zen is not Buddhist. Coming Down from the Zen Clouds -- A critique of the current state of American Zen. By Stuart Lachs. Pop Zen -- "Already I fear, that Zen in America has become just another cult...." Zen Holy War? -- Buddhism has always been portrayed as the religion of peace. "There has never been a Buddhist war," has always been the traditional Buddhist statement. "Zen at War," a courageous and exhaustively researched book by Brian Victoria, a western Soto Zen priest and instructor at the University of Auckland, reveals the inside story of the Japanese Zen establishment''s dedicated support of the imperial war machine from the late 1800''s through World War II. The book chronicles in detail how prominent Zen leaders perverted the Buddhist teaching to encourage blind obedience, mindless killing, and total devotion to the emperor. The consequences were catastrophic and the impact can still be felt today.
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