Zen Buddhism

Tolle claims to have undergone a "spiritual crisis" one night in his Belsize Park bedsit, aged 29, that destroyed his previous identity as a near-suicidal perfectionist worrier – but you can roll your eyes at that and still find much value in his core message, based largely on Zen Buddhism, which is that most of us spend our lives mentally fixated on the past or future, when only the present is "real".

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"Half of Tai Chi is Taoism and Zen Buddhism, which is in total contrast to what we as a Christian church believe in," Rev Morse told AAP.

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For example, I have little or no objection to eastern systems of spirituality, such as Zen Buddhism, since they are empirical in nature and do not ask us to accept things on faith alone.

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The son of a Presbyterian minister, he was born in New York, lived in France and then came to Hawaii in the 1970s to study Zen Buddhism.

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The son of a Presbyterian minister, he was born in New York, lived in France and then came to Hawaii in the 1970s to study Zen Buddhism.

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For years, I immersed myself in Zen Buddhism and yoga.

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For years, I immersed myself in Zen Buddhism and yoga.

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A convert to Zen Buddhism, he was convinced as anyone could be that this life is all there is.

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For years, I immersed myself in Zen Buddhism and yoga.

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Mr. Eugenides also drew on his own spiritual experimentation—he's tried everything from Zen Buddhism to Catholicism—and his travels to Europe and India, where he volunteered with Mother Teresa.

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