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Dragon's Gate
Koan: Master Ungo once was at Ryumon (Dragon’s gate) temple. One day a monk was bitten in his leg by a snake. Butsugen, one of the monks, a...
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I heard these sentiments in some recent health care discussions: •Everyone has the right to healthcare. •America is way behind other countri...
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Last week I mentioned a few moral dilemmas. One was the bystander who could save five lives by throwing one man onto some tracks. I rememb...
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Rhinoceros Fan (an infamous koan) One day Yanguan called to his attendant, "Bring me the rhinoceros fan." The attendant said, ...
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Illusion?
Rather than thinking of illusions as things that aren't true, I think they are more constructs we create to explain what we sense. For example, we sit down in front of some wood and nails. We construct it in our mind as a table. To a woodpecker, it is dinner. That it is a table (or dinner) is an illusion
Is it ever really a table?
No... It is not a table. It is not really even wood, it you ask a physicist.
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