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The instructions in “Grapefruit” are like koans, those aids to meditation used by Zen Buddhists to break down the resistance of human reason to a deeper, fuller awareness.

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2022

Given that most criminals are not Zen Buddhists, blissfully unaware or unconcerned about material things, the argument is clearly false.

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2011

But there has also been a cultural aversion among Zen Buddhists to seeming censorious about sexuality.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2010

In 1936 he went to Japan to study the meditative techniques of the Zen Buddhists.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Zen Buddhists evolved it from the still earlier Taoist philosophy, which undoubtedly inspired Li Po and the other great Chinese poets of the seventh and eighth centuries A.D.

From Goblins and Pagodas by Fletcher, John Gould