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jesushub is taken: http://jesushub.org/ http://jesushub.org/ btw, you're making the analogy as if "Zen" were a religion – it is not

• unclesaamm 12y ago
  Thanks for the link. And "Jesus" isn't a religion either. They're both words that are commonly associated with religions--Christianity and Buddhism. Startups using the word Zen are just creepy in a cultural appropriation kind of way. It's like "I Can't Become a Buddhist", by Adrienne Su: because I grew up vaguely Methodist and most of the Buddhists I know are men who turned Buddhist . after finding the religion in a prepubescent girl serving prawns and chicken . in coconut milk, steamed sticky rice, papayas, and a massage for the price of a subway token. Because they drive . cars bearing FREE TIBET bumper stickers but would let their neighbors wither and starve. Because they slither . up and down the supermarket aisles waiting for the chance to ask girls like me Where are you really from? while . stocking up on mung beans and swelling with the memory of that excellent backrub in the hands of a thirteen- . year-old goddess who's probably dying or dead or working for Nike at a dime a sneaker. Because their renouncing . is pointed, because all they ever wanted was to be different and Buddhism planted the seed of a new Me in a stunted . self-image. Because they insist on roaming the city in off-white robes, deflecting the sun's hot gaze, saffron being . too conspicuous and white being too damned unprofound and likely to be sandwiched between red and blue in a crowd of Americans. http://www.poetrynet.org/month/archive/su/buddhist.html http://www.poetrynet.org/month/archive/su/buddhist.html