Does the "Zen Master" from Cyberpunk 2077 accurately represent Buddhism? In the game Cyberpunk 2077, you can encounter a character labelled only as &quot;Zen Master&quot;, who offers your player character the opportunity to engage in meditations with him. However, the content of the meditations he offers doesn't seem to be based off of actual Buddhism from my understanding of it, though I am not a Buddhist or an expert on Buddhist philosophy or practice. Rather, it seems much more like Western New Age philosophy.
Here's a video someone made compiling the player's interactions with him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In8etjG6LMQ
Does this character present an accurate representation of Buddhist philosophy and/or practice (especially Zen Buddhism, given his name), or is the portrayal as bad as I think it might be? If it is bad, is it to the point of being offensive?
Buddhism does not have meditations on the Spirit of Water, Spirit of Air and Spirit of Fire.
Real Buddhist monks do not accept money for teachings.
The teachings of Cyberpunk 2077's Zen Master appear to be New Age.