Boson, MA— More than 1,000 items have been unearthed deep in the woods of the Eastern Blue Hills Reservation indicating the site of the legendary Zen Colony of Big Blue founded by a Japanese missionary Buddhist monk. The archeological investigation unearthed leather parchment books with Japanese style anime drawings, prayer texts printed on bamboo, rice bowls, sake bottles and Japanese ceramics. The mostly decayed wooden structures were built in a Japanese style with pegs and grooves and no metal nails.





In a groundbreaking new study published Friday in ITT Tech's Journal Of East Asian Studies, a team of leading historians has proved that Zen meditation originally spread from ancient Japan to New England because a single, highly annoying monk went around telling everyone how much it had changed his life.





The Zen Colony of Big Blue became a legend and many people began to think it was simply a fairy tale. Some speculated that when China discovered America in 1421 with Admiral He's massive wooden fleet sailing from the Eastern Shores of Africa around the Cape of Good Hope and into the Alantic Ocean to navigate along the coast of North America were a lone Japanese Zen master asked to be set ashore in Massachusetts when he saw the Blue Hills of Massachusetts from the deck of a Chinese ship.





Others believe that a Japanese Zen monk came to Boson on a ship from Japan in the 1740's.





The more recent claim is that a Japanese logger from California bought a small plot of land in the 1920's and began to supply Boson restaurants with exotic mushrooms and specialty green teas. He was a Buddhist and spoke of his faith to all who would listen and assembled a small commune of Zen believers in the shadows of Big Blue deep in the woods.













Hikers and hunters began to notice strange carvings on trees throughout the Blue Hills. Some speculated that it was a part of a Buddhist meditation method while wood carving in a Zen trance. Researchers determined that the Zen monk, who set up the Japanese colony in the woods learned rudimentary breathing and visualization exercises from a group of Mahayana Buddhists, traveled widely and talked constantly about how practicing meditation for only a week had fundamentally altered his personal outlook. From Boson to Quincy to Milton, he is believed to have aggravated people everywhere he went, inevitably shifting every conversation to the importance of mindfulness and being centered, even when it was clear no one was interested.