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well sure, you can want to keep the comments restricted to your review. but if you want that to be the case, then you might not want to come here and comment on the comments, since each time you do, someone (or a few someones) will find something equally -- or more -- objectionable than what appeared in the review. for example, if you didn't really want to have a discussion about zen buddhism and its place in the history of samurai, then you probably shouldn't have mentioned it. but you did, so you're being challenged for your idiotic conflation of three recognized separate schools of zen with the one that the samurai adopted. and again, rinzai is about learning not to be concerned with one's own death, not with learning how to dehumanize your enemies. so you've made two serious errors based on your own misunderstanding of the zen tradition. how is recognizing, based on the extensive work of scholars of zen, that there are three distinct schools "overstating things," while your reductionist statement is about "Zen Buddhism" in toto? i'm not sorry about pointing out that your categorical statement is a gross oversimplification.