`  ==Buddhism and Zen== I am sure that you are aware of this, but Zen is a type of Buddhism and not some kind of mystical, stand-alone, new age phenomenon.  On your user page, you list Buddhism and Zen as two different influences.  As someone who studied Buddhism in college, and who now lives in Japan, this reads to me the same as if someone were to list their influences as ``Christianity, Daoism, Catholicism...`` or, in a better analogy, ``Islam, Daoism, Sufism...``, etc.  I don't in any way mean to rain on your parade.  Like I mentioned, I studied Buddhism in school and I thoroughly enjoyed it.  I think it is great that you are taking an interest in (the philosophical tenets of) Zen.  Perhaps you are interested in other schools of thought within Buddhism as well.  If this is the case... list them instead of just ``Buddhism``!  Enlighten the average wikipedian who stumbles across your page and perhaps they will research more obscure forms of Buddhism besides Zen, which has become so popular and (sadly) philosophically corrupted in the West.  It is just my two cents of course, but everytime I read something like that I feel obligated to speak up.  Anyway, keep up the good (and unique) work!  -   `