[Buddha-l] Zen War Guilt/Zen and the Sword

[Jim Peavler]

On Aug 23, 2005, at 9:56 AM, curt wrote:
> This only raises Aitken's naivete to a truly transcendental level. My 
> point
> is that all of this says much more about the western adherents of 
> Japanese
> Zen than it does about Japenese Zen itself. As you point out they had 
> no
> good reason to be "unaware" of the complicity of their teachers with 
> the
> fascist regime that reigned in Japan for over half a century. And yet 
> they
> now claim to be shocked, shocked at these "revelations". Nothing has 
> been
> revealed except their own willfull self-deception.
>

I have not seen anyone express even shock, much less shock, shock. I 
have seen people asking if anything recent and worth reading happens to 
exist. So far it doesn't look like it.



Jim Peavler

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

     -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania
     Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755