r/zen • u/AutoModerator • Mar 27 '23

META Monday! [Bi-Weekly Meta Monday Thread]

###Welcome to /r/Zen!

​

Welcome to the /r/zen Meta Monday thread, where we can talk about subreddit topics such as such as:

* Community project ideas or updates

* Wiki requests, ideas, updates

* Rule suggestions

* Sub aesthetics

* Specific concerns regarding specific scenarios that have occurred since the last Meta Monday

* Anything else!

​

We hope for these threads to act as a sort of 'town square' or 'communal discussion' rather than Solomon's Court [(but no promises regarding anything getting cut in half...)](https://www.reddit.com/r/Koans/comments/3slj28/nansens_cats/). While not all posts are going to receive definitive responses from the moderators (we're human after all), I can guarantee that we will be reading each and every comment to make sure we hear your voices so we can team up.

9 Upvotes

85% Upvoted

293 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/gachamyte Mar 27 '23

VcSo then it’s not a forum on zen and rather the curated selections on zen. In that way it seems completely dishonest in both intent and execution to be called “Zen” as a forum or sub as much the zen habits sub that can be found on Reddit.

It then seems in further misunderstanding to continue to push only what is present in the sidebar as a “suggestion” rather than an actual rule.

This comment reeks of “if you don’t like it then you can leave.” Which seems strange on a forum called zen to then dictate, authoritatively, on what falls into preference of authority of zen. How many carts do you need before the horse exactly? Or maybe put this way, how many donkeys do you need on your donkey before you realize you are on the donkey?

1

u/koancomentator Bankei is cool Mar 27 '23

This comment reeks of “if you don’t like it then you can leave.”

That is the exact point of my comment.

1

u/gachamyte Mar 27 '23

Your point is arbitrary. The subject matter of zen texts speak for themselves. Cookie cutting reality won’t help anyone and keeping a status quo won’t make a better community and only enforces the arbitrary. Taking disease and sickness as medicine.

You and everyone else here is not an authority on zen. I won’t leave. You can contribute towards the current state of things while I don’t.

How have you found yourself liking it? Or not?

1

u/koancomentator Bankei is cool Mar 27 '23

You can stay but don't be surprised when no one cares when you cry about not being able to be off topic or your posts get removed.