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MU! ( I say this while not wanting to reduce the conversation to a negation of conversation, which so often happens to threads about Zen. It would be ...

@Asktheshadow It is folly to entertain the notion that ideas can prove something about existence*. For at least two reasons, firstly ideas are abstrac...

I have given it some thought and have concluded that it works well as a koan because of the juxtaposition of "what are you doing?" and "what are you s...

@ TheWillowOfDarkness I agree, like the tethered calf, the self is a being, an animal, a living entity, a soul, a creature. Something which exists, we...

Hi wayfarer, it's nice to see familiar faces again after the other forum caught a cold. Yes I think it is from the Satipathana sutra, (I am no scholar...

"just as a man would tie to a post a calf that should be tamed, even so here should one tie one's own mind tight to the object of mindfulness"