On the surface Christianity and Zen Buddhism can appear to be worlds apart, even antithetical.
Suzuki, the famous teacher of Zen, engaged in an extensive Dialogue and found ways of mutually affirming shared meanings of God and person that each regarded to be tr.
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Yet Thomas Merton, the Catholic spiritual master, and D.
Christianity affirms the reality of the Tri-personal God and the eternal salvation of mortal human beings
Zen denies both the existence of God and the soul.
On the surface Christianity and Zen Buddhism can appear to be worlds apart, even antithetical