Excited to talk with some people. Do we plan this space to be more of a book club or a chat room? Personally I say chat room till we get enough people for the book club to make sense.
I think it’s hard to say at the moment with so few people on Lemmy and even fewer in this community. I think playing it by ear to start is my plan
makes sense. currently it’s just us talking. Happy to meet ya @theksepyro.
+1
I don’t know if anyone here can see my comment, but I joined from lemm.ee and when I joined I noticed that I can no longer see anyone else’s comments… Makes me wonder if anyone here can see mine as well. Halp
Looks like its fixed.
Hello! I hope this sub doesn’t devolve into people arguing about Dogen (see r/zen). There are some people whom question the legitimacy of Dogen and Japanese Zen Buddhism in general, and r/zen is filled with people arguing about it. Even though there are separate r/zen and r/zenbuddhism subs.
I started a zen.ee community at lemm.ee, but I was wondering if anyone had thoughts about this, it’s pretty annoying on r/zen to see the constant spam about it. Should there be seperate zen and zenbuddhism subs to keep people from getting into these heated arguments, when really we should be arguing about zen!?
I… think questioning their legitimacy is justified, but would agree that I’d prefer for this space to not be dedicated to that conversation.
I agree its fair to question the legitimacy of dogen, but more than anything else we are all just seekers. Also no school of thought is isolated, and, no matter the legitimacy of dogen, someone following soto zen could find enlightenment. I’d much rather discuss the way than discuss the validity of any patriarch.
Seems a bit early for that concern. Fragmentation, discoverability and critical mass is more pressing.
Well, at the very least it looks like I can now see other users comments here and they can see mine :)
