Zen and Autism... Maybe autistic people aren’t so wrong when they don’t want to socialize or belong to groups... *"It’s not so bad when people are alone, but when they become part of a group, paralysis sets in. They become quite stupid and fail to distinguish right from wrong. It’s truly a ‘group paralysis.’ There are even people who pay a membership fee to be part of this absurdity. Some will do anything to spread the word and poison others. We must distance ourselves from these societies to avoid this paralysis. Zazen is the way to say goodbye to this nonsense."* — Kodo Sawaki, Zen Master