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The metaphysics of Zen Buddhism is essentially Hinduism "stripped for transport" with a little bit of Taoist humor and Native-American Coyote energy thrown in for good measure. The Zen Master gives his students the opportunity to transcend the need for metaphysics.

Subcategories

• Teachings
• What Is Zen

Resources in This Category

• Ch'an Buddhism and the Prophetic Poems of William Blake

  http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-JOCP/ferrar1.htm
  An essay discussing the relation between William Blake's poetry and Zen.

• On Zen Language and Paradoxes

  http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-JOCP/farlow.htm
  A philosophical analysis of Zen koans by John King-Farlow.

• Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in Japan and China

  http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/rosa/index.htm
  1913 classic book by Kaiten Nukariya. Complete online book.

• The Zen philosopher: A review article on Dogen scholarship in English

  http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/kasulis.htm
  The nature and importance of Dogen's thought as representative of the philosophical structure of Zen Buddhism.

• Truth and Zen

  http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/kasulis1.htm
  A comparison of the Aristotilian view of truth and Zen's view.

• Tsung-Mi and the single word "awareness"(chih)

  http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/gregory.htm
  by Peter N. Gregory, from Philosophy East and West.

• Zen Philosophy

  http://goto.bilkent.edu.tr/gunes/ZEN/zenphilosophy.htm
  A brief introduction to Zen thought.

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