Tell me about Zen

what arrogant judgment....please reconsider it

which is why these different schools of Zen and Chan all happen to be chanting the Heart Sutra, you ignoramus.
>believes in b/s spouted by equally ignorant 60s hippys with a fragmentary knowledge of Zen/Chan.

>which is why these different schools of Zen and Chan all happen to be chanting the Heart Sutra
Your ignorance is immeasurable as your arrogance: "Christmas Humphreys, one of the leading pioneers in the history of Buddhism in Britain, wrote that "Zen is a subject extremely easy to misunderstand." He was right.

Zen is something a person does. It's not a concept that can be described in words. Despite that, words on this site will help you get some idea of what Zen is about. But remember, Zen does not depend on words - it has to be experienced in order to 'understand'.

laughing right now at this display of arrogance: Christmas Humphreys didn't know the first thing about Zen. That's for starters.
Next, we are speaking of the schools of Buddhism known as Zen and Chan, which you claim do not study Buddhist sutras. But since we have seen videos proving they do, you are quite obviously in the wrong.
Now, if you want to invoke a different definition of Zen, you are free to do so - there are many - but they will not accord with your initial proposition.

If you are the samefag (traitor sect), your mental contradictions have not gone unnoticed.

>Hinayanist detected

So you're not arrogant, you're a grand master that can affirm Mr Humphreys is a beginner...bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/buddhism/subdivisions/zen_1.shtml
I'm a fierce enemy of zen buddhism but I can't stand misinterpretations

>Theravada is Hinayana

Wee lad

Humphreys has his merits, yes of course. Zen/Chan was not one of them.
1. He did not know any of the texts in the original.
2. He never underwent any sort of Chan/Zen training.
3. He personally had little interest in that form of Buddhism.

Contrast with John Blofeld, who fitted all the above criteria, although was too modest to claim any great knowledge. (Protip: most of Humphrey's knowledge of Chan came from Blofeld, but you knew that already, right?)

So, you've revealed your true colours, and that's fine. You're just misreading this thread spectacularly to suit your own agenda, and that's not fine.

as above your arrogance is higher than Sumeru mountain..You think to understand something but your delusion didn't let you able to comprehend the reality I'm not Hinayanist I'm member of Soka Gakkai.
I strongly recomend you to study Nichiren's writings

No thanks, I have little interest in your sectarian spouting.

But I will add that I have studied a work on the Lotus Sutra, written by a contemporary member of the Nichiren sect, some Japanese monk whose name escapes me right now. It was quite comprehensive and very useful. But it contained nothing overly sectarian or polemical in it, unlike your messages.