Bear and Forbear: Zen in "The Art of Living":

Westerners attracted to Zen Buddhism's religious and philosophical principles often find cultural barriers in the language, symbols, and methodologies that hamper the daily practice of this Eastern religious tradition. Much more approachable for Westerners are Stoic principles, most of which originated in ancient Greece and pre-Socratic thought, paralleling the development of similar Eastern approaches to life and religion of ancient India and pre-Buddhistic thought. These core principles f...