Zen and the Art of Divebombing (2016)

The code of the samurai, later called bushidô, the “Way of the Warrior,” was in no way a religious duty like Arjuna’s dharma, but a connection between religion and battle was made through the way in which Zen Buddhism wedded Buddhist purposes to both the Taoist practice of an art or a craft and, in a historical tradition dominated by a military class, the Japanese “martial arts.” “Zen” is the Japanese pronunciation of the name of a School of Buddhism that originally began in China, combining Buddhist ideas with influence from the ancient Chinese school of Taoism. Desiring to choose a “dharma heir” and return to India, Bodhidharma asked his closest students to state the essence of his teaching [these are the Japanese versions of their names]:

In Buddhism, the “marrow” here is a distinctively Ch’an idea, that the ultimate teaching is silent.

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