Friday, January 28, 2011

Madness or Innocence?

The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit, where one has to choose between madness and innocence. And Zen suggests that we may be driving toward one or the other on a cosmic scale. Driving toward them because, one way or another, as madmen or innocents, we are already there.

It might be good to open our eyes and see.

—Thomas Merton

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