What are your feelings on the movements within Zen, perhaps best exemplified in Grassroots Zen, to “Westernize” the practice in ways that are less patriarchal, hierarchal, and less attached to the various rituals (like the tea ceremony) that are associated with a stereotypical “traditional” Zen? Or, more generally, attempts to “localize” the practice to a given region and culture?
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What are your feelings on the movements within Zen, perhaps best exemplified in Grassroots Zen, to “Westernize” the practice in ways that are less patriarchal, hierarchal, and less attached to the various rituals (like the tea ceremony) that are associated with a stereotypical “traditional” Zen? Or, more generally, attempts to “localize” the practice to a given region and culture?
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