IW: I remember being shocking by the cultural provincialism of a New York Times Magazine writer who decried Zen Koans as meaningless waste of time. (It might have been the Ethicist who made this pronouncement). A Zen Koan is described by Wikipedia as It consists of a story, dialogue, question, or statement, the meaning of […]
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