who is it who beats his wife innocently?

We speak in symbols and we think in symbols. Symbols of themselves aren’t logical, but we’ve created logical symbols – symbols that relate symbols to other symbols.

This knowing mind – this is the great evolution of modern man. Our capacity to build more complex, atomic, esoteric relations between symbols enables us to drill further and further into this philosophical quagmire called life: What’s the meaning? What’s the purpose? What’s real? What matters?

In Zen, it’s the unknowing that possesses true wisdom.

Incredulous Zen, Part 1

I grew up skeptical of religion – and still am. The parting advice from my (specifically) Catholic mother upon my going away for a weekend in high school to a <<quote>> Jesus retreat <<end quote>> was to be cautious about getting caught up in it. She really didn’t need to worry: I was only going to chase a girl.