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[Richard Fiero]

alice wellintown wrote:
>. . .
>A kōan: is a story, dialogue, question, or statement in the history
>and lore of Zen Buddhism, generally containing aspects that are
>inaccessible to rational understanding, yet may be accessible to
>intuition. A famous kōan is: "Two hands clap and there is a sound;
>what is the sound of one hand?"
  . . .
A hero's journey often does attempt to dispense 
with the world of dualities and binary opposites: 
pain and pleasure, light and dark, etc. Even a 
good thief and a bad thief via Jesus Christ.
The human mind is pretty good at looking at the 
world outside of itself but likely sucks when 
attempting to look at itself--think itself. Hence 
the sound of one hand clapping.