Finding lineage

[Drut]

Is there such a thing as a "Big Book of Zen Buddhists". Now that I am done with my time sitting at the gate :)...I hope to be more involved here but I would also like to find someone in the Pacific Northwest of the USA or anywhere for that matter who is of Robert Linsson's lineage. He wrote "Living Zen"... http://books.google.com/books?id=BOFjqy ... 5s#PPP1,M1 (http://http://books.google.com/books?id=BOFjqyBpP-MC&dq=robert+linssen+living+zen&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=Agz_RNyeDI&sig=1cC0qvZoOttIJ5BrMU8f4oE6l5s#PPP1,M1) My searches on Google have proven a dead end.

Gasso,

Doug

[Jundo]

Hi,

I will ask through the American Zen Teachers' Association. But I believe he was a writer out of Europe. I am not sure if he were ordained, but in any event, I have never heard that he had any students.

Maybe somebody can correct me if they have better information?

Gassho, Jundo

[Drut]

Thanks. You are right. He was from Belgium. I first read his book 30 years ago and when I re-read it I was so surprised how many things I had internalized. I kept having, "Oh! That's where I got that from", moments. He died in 2004 but I would have liked to at least talk to one of his students since I haven't ever talked to anyone who thinks like me. Those few to whom I have explained how I see the world have never heard anything like it. Not to be regreted but since that period when I first read his book I have tried to not talk about Zen so as to not involve "me" in the process. I think it would have been useful to seek the advice of others with more experience but I was following the line of thought expressed by Linsson as I understood it at the time. Here I am.

Gasso,

Doug

[Jundo]

Hi,

Just a word that nobody in the AZTA (that is the union of all the Zen teachers in North America, Soto, Japanese Rinzai, Korean and Ch'an) had any information of this fellow. I am sorry. A lot of great writers were not in any particular lineage.

I have one more place to ask: One of Nishijima's heirs in Belgium/France.

Gassho, Jundo