Maclaren:
plays chess with Sverdlov;
argues No versus Kabuki with Nakamura;
shocks Ryerson with limericks;
shaves regularly;
dresses fastidiously.
Nakamura contemplates paradoxes;
Ryerson quotes the Bible;
Sverdlov looks at photographs of past mistresses.
All human life is there.
Once, meditating in the "quiet room" of a Youth Hostel, I was joined by a Japanese man who seemed to be reading his Bible!
I cannot understand the value of contemplating the sound of one hand clapping. We know that there is not meant to be any answer so how can we look for an answer? Fortunately for us, the "ancestors" have formulated every possible practice so we are able to test which of the various ways or paths makes sense to us.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Dang! Chess in THE ENEMY STARS? I may have to revise my "Andersonian Chess" article!
Like questions which cannot be answered, logical paradoxes like the sound of one hand clapping has long fascinated many human beings.
And the Japanese gentleman you met may have been either a convert or descended from those who became Christians in the 16th century.
Sean
Sean,
Chess link added.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Thanks!
Sean
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