Zen, Why in Japan

Buddhism was born in Northern India. Oddly enough, it is not prosperous in today's India. Zen was said to be started by Bodhidharma, a high priest in India who later moved to China. Queerly enough, Shaolin-si Temple in China, where Bodhidharma stayed until his death, is rather related to Kung Fu. Zen, a sect of Buddhism, is rather Japanese. It is still popular in Japan, and has been exported to the Western world via Japan. The truth is something to be felt while you are just sitting. It is implicit. That might have been sympathetically vibrating with the everyday feelings Japanese people have had. Friendship is something to be felt while you are just mingling together. Even love between lovers, not to mention between spouses, may be something to be felt while you are staying together, and is sung that way in some Japanese love songs too. They are all implicit. At least, so have they been until lately. The way friendship is taken in Japan has caused some problems. If you are not spending enough time with your friends, you can be supposed you are leaving them. That makes young Japanese hardly leave their Keitai, a cellular phone. They are always either sending e-mails or making phone calls. The relationship among Japanese people is getting more and more explicit. Yet, a peer pressure that you are supposed to spend unreasonably long time together is still alive. You may find it very UZAI.