Yes, this is a trick question.
It's a trick because nobody is ever honestly going to say Dogen or Hakuin or any Japanese Buddhist... nobody wants to meet a famous meditation guru... and that tells us a great deal about what the face of Zen is.
It's this face: https://thue.museum-digital.de/singleimage?imagenr=71&noiiif=1
Daruma [Chinese: Bodhidharma].. The fierce, not exactly attractive facial expression of the figure led to the wooden sculpture being described as a demon when the inventory was taken in the early 1950s.
Delicious.
So, what Zen Master would you most like to meet?
Submitted February 25, 2023 at 12:22PM by ewk https://ift.tt/fVt6OGb
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