Article: Zen Buddhism is growing _ and changing _ in America. (Originated from X X X)

By Richard Scheinin 
Knight-Ridder Newspapers 
Thirty men and women sit silently at dusk inside the Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center in Mountain View, Calif. They are motionless, facing the blank walls. Eyes are half-closed, backs are straight, legs are folded. The silence grows for 40 minutes as the light fades. There is an occasional sigh. Sounds drift in through an open door: a train whistle blows, a breeze rustles the leaves, a child sings ``Take Me Out to the Ball Game.'' 
It's Zen Buddhism in America. 
It's growing. 
One hundred years ago this month, a Japanese Zen monk named Soyen Shaku attended opening ceremonies of the World's Parliament of Religions ...

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