The C’han-Zen Teacher Deshan Xuanjian [780-865 CE] would stride the Zendo with a big stick:
‘If you utter a word I give you thirty blows’, he would bellow, ‘and if you utter not a word, just the same, thirty blows’ [The original Mumonkan had sixty blows, if I recall. I’ll settle for thirty].
Absurdity: ‘From Surdus-Deaf, Insensible, Untrue, Ridiculously inconsistent with Reason, Logically Contradictory, Foolish, Irrational, Preposterous.’
Absurdity in all its layers encases Two-ness. And each layer needs to be peeled away with pincers. And all pointers it are equally, unabashedly, in-your-face absurd.
And the source? It’s always the same. Self-Reference, being asleep to the Self-Loop, getting lost in its entrails.
If the Trek beckons, you begin by cultivating a high-tolerance for all things foolish, an appreciation for sheer nonsense, an acquired facility with the flagrantly absurd.
In the next few Posts we shall wade into Logic and Mathematics, two subjects that passionately abhor all things absurd.
We see magic in the distant vision and miss the miracle of our next breath.
‘Miracle’ [from the Latin, Mira for ‘Wonder’], is the manifestly inexplicable event, one in violation of accepted, credible laws. Absurdity manifest in three-dimensions. There is no religion still around that does not have the miracle and the magical act as the main feature of attraction.
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