Christianity and Zen

[Musician]

I'm curious what others thoughts are on using both in your life? Zen focusing on bringing enlightenment to ones self and decluttering ones mind in order to do so. And Christianity where the individual is enlightened by Gods word and living in such a manner.

Zen does not worship anything, so "no false Gods" doesn't apply here, neither would the Occult because the individual is not drawing from an outside spiritual force. Everything comes from within. I've seen books on Meditating on the Scriptures, so I don't feel there's any conflict here. If one were an actual Buddhist then I would see a conflict, but that doesn't apply here.

 

[Fred]

I'm curious what others thoughts are on using both in your life? Zen focusing on bringing enlightenment to ones self and decluttering ones mind in order to do so. And Christianity where the individual is enlightened by Gods word and living in such a manner.

Zen does not worship anything, so "no false Gods" doesn't apply here,

Thus it is a denial of worship due unto God.

One attempts to reach enlightenment apart from the worship of God. A believer is a child of the Light (Ephesians 5:8). Zen attempts to reach a fake what the Christian has in reality.

neither would the Occult because the individual is not drawing from an outside spiritual force. Everything comes from within. I've seen books on Meditating on the Scriptures, so I don't feel there's any conflict here. If one were an actual Buddhist then I would see a conflict, but that doesn't apply here.

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Is the Buddhist concept of Zen compatible with the Christian faith? What is the origin of the concept of Zen?

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[makesends]

I'm curious what others thoughts are on using both in your life? Zen focusing on bringing enlightenment to ones self and decluttering ones mind in order to do so. And Christianity where the individual is enlightened by Gods word and living in such a manner.

Zen does not worship anything, so "no false Gods" doesn't apply here, neither would the Occult because the individual is not drawing from an outside spiritual force. Everything comes from within. I've seen books on Meditating on the Scriptures, so I don't feel there's any conflict here. If one were an actual Buddhist then I would see a conflict, but that doesn't apply here.

The argument that you've seen book on Meditating on the Scriptures show there is no conflict, is faulty. I've also read books on meditating on the Scriptures —one of which is very much mixed with New Age philosophy and in my estimation is dangerous.

Emptying your mind can also be dangerous. Zen may purport to be all from within, but it is not found in Scripture.

 

[Musician]

I'm done with this place, y'all better be perfect the way you judge others.

 

[Musician]

Zen is not a belief system, it's an activity. You people don't know as much as you think you do. But go on being your fundamentalist selves..

 

[Fred]

I'm done with this place, y'all better be perfect the way you judge others.

See John 7:24.

 

[Mr GLee]

I'm curious what others thoughts are on using both in your life? Zen focusing on bringing enlightenment to ones self and decluttering ones mind in order to do so. And Christianity where the individual is enlightened by Gods word and living in such a manner.

Zen does not worship anything, so "no false Gods" doesn't apply here, neither would the Occult because the individual is not drawing from an outside spiritual force. Everything comes from within. I've seen books on Meditating on the Scriptures, so I don't feel there's any conflict here. If one were an actual Buddhist then I would see a conflict, but that doesn't apply here.

Zen becomes another source of faith other than that of our Holy Father as it is written . . . . with adds to the perfect sealed with 7 seals till the end of time. Adding making sola scriptura to no effect.

Zen same author that added his own prophecy as a false prophet. "Neither shall you touch". sending Eve out as a false apostle with false prophecy. . . touching it deceiving Adam and Eve, they both ate of the fruit of death. The poison of false prophecy. Adding to the living word of God.

Genesis 3King James Version3 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

I would think in that way we can't know God though the philosophies of dying mankind the wisdom of this world. All truth is His. I would think he would never share its glory with the father of lies . He fell when he tried to touch the glory of our Faithful Creator.

Only the finger of God heals by touch. Like the parable in the Michelangelo painting "the creation of man" . Hands to represent wills touching our Emmauel. Yoked with him our burden can be lighter.


Matthew 8:3 And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
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Matthew 8:15 And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them