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"I've set this aside while I read Genjokoan. Great teishos in the Rinzai tradition. Great teachings, but one Zen book at a time is plenty." — May 13, 2013 12:32AM
"I've set this aside while I read Genjokoan. Great teishos in the Rinzai tradition. Great teachings, but one Zen book at a time is plenty." — May 13, 2013 12:32AM
“You adulterate the truth as you write. There isn't any pretense that you try to arrive at the literal truth. And the only consolation when you confess to this flaw is that you are seeking to arrive at poetic truth, which can be reached only through fabrication, imagination, stylization. What I'm striving for is authenticity; none of it is real.”
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“atheism” ... reminds one of children, assuring everyone who is ready to listen to them that they are not afraid of the bogy man.
Marx, Letter to 30 November 1842”
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Marx, Letter to 30 November 1842”
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“He is cured by faith who is sick of fate.”
― Finnegans Wake
― Finnegans Wake
Zen Buddhism
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Discussion of books about Zen Buddhism in general and American Zen in particular.
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A group to discuss and recommend books on japanese buddhism.
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This group is for readers interested in the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
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