Question

What are the benefits and drawbacks of the Zen way of teaching?

Answer 1

My favorite explanation of this is in renowned Zen teacher and author Philip Kapleau's ... As Kapleau put it, this is about overall living in harmony with the natural way of life

Answer 2

HERE IS YOUR ANSWER ⤵

According to John Crook, there is one unity factor that defines the positive role of the teacher in all Buddhist traditions.
The vehicles....... are perspective on the Dharma with the power to include realisation. The teacher is a facilitator of this individuals process.

Bodhidharma, founder of the zen lineage, took that psychology to China a 1000 years later describing Zen this way; A special transmission outside religion/Not depending on words and letters/Pointing directly to the human mind/seeing into one's nature and attaining buddhahood".

The Zen master "Dogen Zengi(1200-1253) is one of the people who told us how to medicate; he uses the phrase" Without Thinking.

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