Hi, I've always been drawn to buddhism. I've grown up in a european family, my parents labeled themselves "hindu". My father is a self proclaimed prophet. He "teaches" a lot of people his made up theories of life and such, meanwhile he's a miserable narcissist. I have been raised as a vegetarian. I didn't eat no meat at all until I turned 19 and started to make deciesions for my own life. My father was the first figure who intruduced me to self proclaimed prophets. Now a lot of time has passed.
I'm 30, and I'm done with religions a long time ago. But I've always been drawn to zen. I simply experienced that the only way for me to feel better is to let go, and not think all the time. I wanted to know more about Zen, and since I'm studying psychology, I've read Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis by Fromm and Suzuki. I really enjoyed Fromm, but Suzuki? not so much. In his lectures he gave me those self proclaimed prophet vibes. He qas condescending to all western people. Like we all think the same way... And what he said was very abstract and vague.
To finally arrive at my question. I want to understand Zen. I want to read one book that is possibly wrote by someone who didn't want no attention, social appretiation or money for what he wrote. I don't want to read a prophets book. I'm not interested in peoples subjective understanding of Zen. Is there such a book, that has all the knowledge of Zen without bias only telling me what it's about?
Submitted May 22, 2022 at 03:02PM by Plainviews_milkshake https://ift.tt/0T7Duls
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