Mainstream Zen

[chicanobudista]

Re: Mainstream Zen

Some of the stuff is what would be spiritual materialism. You don't need any robe (Tibetan, Japenese, otherwise) to meditate. :wink:

My vision of what it might be like in the future, in the west, is even more minimal, even more stripped down. This would make me much more comfortable with it. Would it make it less appealing to you guys?

Actually, not too far into the future. In certain ways, teachers like Charlotte Jocko Beck or Gil Fronsdal have been doing for a while presenting and teaching about Buddhism w/o the "bells and whistles."