re: #123 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Buddhists and Zen adherents have had plenty of wars and fucked-up shit, too. There’s no magic system of thought, and you can get just as tradition-bound with Zen as you can with anything else. The WWII-era Japanese dudes who marched Japan into militarism were Zen Buddhists.

They were more motivated by Japan’s traditional cultural chauvinism than the teachings of Buddha. I know that makes your point rather than contradicts it, but I wanted to add my 2 cents.