Zen And New Age

My Zen temple
was deciding
quite a few
years ago,
whether to blend
its Zen
with new age teaching,
or stay like pure Zen,
so we all seemed
to have a prejudice
against the new age,
because we thought
that it was too freaky,
so we stayed
with straight Zen,
but I then
sort of left
the temple,
and remembered
that once
I had promised
a woman
that I would read
a Shirley MacClaine book
and I did
and my mind
was freed
from the prison
that one gets into
with fundamentalist religion,
and from there
I have explored much
of new age teaching
and find it
most enlightening,
because, you know,
it's all Buddha!