I first encountered Buddhism through Zen while travelling abroad. No Zen teachers back home but many Tibetan centres. I took formal refuge but now 15 years later I feel drawn back to Zen. How do I trust that this pull towards Zen isn't just the machinations of ego the appeal of difference?

May 9, 2014, 2:09 pm

If you took your lay ordination with pure heart, then this was not your ego. There are so many paths in Buddhism, yet the teaching of the Buddha is the same.

I first encountered Buddhism through Zen while travelling abroad. No Zen teachers back home but many Tibetan centres. I took formal refuge but now 15 years later I feel drawn back to Zen. How do I trust that this pull towards Zen isn't just the machinations of ego the appeal of difference?

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