Hehe, you keep continuing this. I even explicitly wrote my intentions and it was not about trying to demonstrate insight. See how many assumptions you made in such a short message: 1) "young" (how do you know?), 2) "zen people" (never claimed to be a "zen person"), 3) "without contact with tradition" (how do you know?), 4) "90%" (some random percentage, how do you even assess what western spirituality is, other than your own projections that are subject to cognitive biases). And, to be honest, they say to a large extent that Dharma has been moved to the west quite extensively.

Anyway, I fail to understand why you claim to be a "zen guy" and keep demonstrating with your fighting that your practice (if you have one) is not very effective in softening you into a little bit more compassionate direction. That's what actual practice would do. What's the use of any insight if you still transform playful discussion into something like that? Zen is a practice, and if you want to call yourself a "zen guy", it should be seen in how you think, talk and act. If it doesn't, it's probably called spiritual bypassing, and it works be a good idea to announce being something other than "zen guy". If stuff like this is "90% of Western spirituality", I guess it's quite a good situation then?

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