My Path to Zen

Started with online Project Guttenberg and The Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. Read it. Next was Twenty Years After, followed by The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, Louise de la Valliere and finally the Man in the Iron Mask. Then for good measure, read the Count of Monte Cristo.

I also watched the dvds of the Three Musketeers, Man in the Iron Mask and the Count of Monte Cristo. Thank god for Pippin's Netflix account.

Then came Frank Herbert's Dune series of books. I read Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor Dune, Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse Dune. Also the biography of Frank Hebert (Dreamer of Dune).

I watched Dune (movie and the Sci-Fi Channel mini-series and the Children of Dune mini-series.).

In the biography of Herbert, it talks about zen guy Alan Watts. So I read his book, The Spirit of Zen. Which led me to Shunryu Suzuki's Beginner's Mind, Zen Mind, then to Shoes Outside the Door - a history of Suzuki's Zen Center, its rise and fall.

Which led me to sitting zazen recently. I'm sitting five minutes at a time and I'm pretty sure I'm doing it wrong, but ...

Some thoughts and questions about zen.

1. Is zen anti-mult-tasking?

2. Is zen anti-family / relationships? Family just another form of attachment? Is your own practice the most important thing of all?