r/zen • u/ewk [non-sectarian consensus] • 19d ago

AI Zen Master

Since it's so easy to drop a Zen text or even multiple Zen texts into an llm and ask questions that the llm will answer from the standpoint of the text?

* www.reddit.com/r/Zen/wiki/getstarted

Doesn't it make sense that there would be a lot less confusion and a lot more interesting conversations??

Plus, if you have an llm answer questions about the texts then who better to explain why Zazen Shinto-Buddhism and Alan Epstein Watts are not part of the tradition?

Serious question.

Where are all my AI Zen Masters at?

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u/Gasdark 15d ago

That's very clear

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u/origin_unknown 15d ago

Sorry. That might be small minded, and maybe even dismissive of me, but I'm not educated in philosophy beyond PHY101, and I even dropped Theology back then because I was still trying to follow in the footsteps of my religious fruitcake if a father. I dont have enough education there to have the conversation, which makes a lot of speculation in my part, and I'd just rather not.