from Swedenborg.com
Zen meant giving up the love and sense of a separate self and living passionately in the moment so as to leave one open to the influx of wisdom and enlightenment. Zen included the notion of work or service. This was at the very core of the Zen monk’s education known as the “Meditation Hall.”
https://swedenborg.com/scholars-american-pragmatism-swedenborg-and-zen/
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New Church of Montgomery, in Glendale 