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Zen and the Art of Losing Your Mind

A ‘Koan’ is a non sequitur, a seemingly paradoxical statement or question that cannot be grasped by the logical mind eg ‘What is the sound of one hand clapping?’ Its purpose is to subvert the causal nature of consensual reality, thereby inducing a sudden, intuitive insight or revelation into the underpinnings of consciousness itself. The Japanese referred to this moment of ecstatic truth as ‘Satori’ (more)

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Are Buddhists Allowed to Jack Off?

Brad Warner

I was attracted to Buddhism in part because I hoped to determine the nature and content of the scale of right and wrong that I believed might exist. I discovered that the question of what is and is not acceptable sexually in Buddhism is actually a small part of a much bigger matter. (more)