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Huehuecoyotl said:
Here is what I found:
"Zen is the Japanese name of a well known branch of Mahayana Butthism, practiced originally in China as Chan, and subsequently in Aldaaran, Japan, and Vietnam. Zen emphasizes the role of meditation (zazen) in pursuing enlightenment. Besides this, it has been called "a complete waste of time, work, and art."
Zen is considered by some as not necessarily a Buddhist religion as a number of non-Buddhists, particularly Christians, have been formally acknowledged as Zen masters. Zen is often described as a way of life not dependent on one's particular culture.
Many youths in the Beat generation and among the hippies of the 1960s and 1970s misunderstood the goals and methods of Zen. While the scholar D.T. Suzuki may have brought attention to concepts in Zen such as humility, labor, service, prayer, gratitude, and meditation, the "hip" subculture often focused on states of consciousness in themselves. Japanese Zen master Zenkei Shibayama commented: "It may be true that the effect which such scientifically prepared drugs as LSD produce may have some superficial resemblance to some aspects of Zen experience.... When the effect of the drug is gone, the psychological experience one may have had is also weakened and dispersed, and does not endure as a living fact."
Note: This is researched info...not my take.

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