Soto Zen Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Soto Zen? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Soto Zen from Schools Of Philosophy and what is the personality traits.
ISTP (5w4)
Soto Zen personality type is ISTP, but take note that the S,N,T of the type are reversed. ISTP is not the same as ENTP. In fact, much of the difference between this type and the other two can be attributed to the fact that the latter two types are sociocentric and ISTP is not. ISTP's primary drive is to be alone in order to process their internal world. They are also more likely to be introverted than either INTP or ENTP, but less likely than INFJ.
Sōtō Zen or the Sōtō school (曹洞宗, Sōtō-shū) is the largest of the three traditional sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism (the others being Rinzai and Ōbaku). It is the Japanese line of the Chinese Cáodòng school, which was founded during the Tang dynasty by Dòngshān Liánjiè. It emphasizes Shikantaza, meditation with no objects, anchors, or content. The meditator strives to be aware of the stream of thoughts, allowing them to arise and pass away without interference.
The Japanese brand of the sect was imported in the 13th century by Dōgen Zenji, who studied Caodong Buddhism (Chinese: 曹洞宗; pinyin: Cáodòng Zōng) abroad in China. Dōgen is remembered today as the co-patriarch of Sōtō Zen in Japan along with Keizan Jōkin.
With about 14,000 temples, Sōtō is one of the largest Japanese Buddhist organizations. Sōtō Zen is now also popular in the West.
