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Zen Koans Explained: "Publishing the Sutras"
Hamilton Nolan · 12/12/14 03:50PMZen Koans Explained: "The Silent Temple"
Hamilton Nolan · 11/21/14 03:23PMWhat is the wind? Is it a fluid, like water? Is it, like, fire, which would be some sort of magic, or maybe, not a solid, but the other—a gas?—or a category of "heat thing" that is named for its temperature, because what else would you even call it? It's almost a fluid as well, which would be ironic. Anyhow. Is it
Zen Koans Explained: "A Letter to a Dying Man"
Hamilton Nolan · 11/14/14 04:38PMZen Koans Explained: "Is That So?"
Hamilton Nolan · 11/07/14 03:04PMZen Koans Explained: "The Most Valuable Thing in the World"
Hamilton Nolan · 10/24/14 04:01PMZen Koans Explained: "Great Waves"
Hamilton Nolan · 10/17/14 03:20PMZen Koans Explained: "The Giver Should Be Thankful"
Hamilton Nolan · 10/10/14 02:22PMZen Koans Explained: "Open Your Own Treasure House"
Hamilton Nolan · 09/26/14 02:34PMZen Koans Explained: "Happy Chinaman"
Hamilton Nolan · 09/19/14 03:49PMZen Koans Explained: "Just Go to Sleep"
Hamilton Nolan · 09/12/14 02:22PMZen Koans Explained: "The Voice of Happiness"
Hamilton Nolan · 09/05/14 02:23PMZen Koans Explained: "The Living Buddha & the Tubmaker"
Hamilton Nolan · 08/29/14 01:30PMZen Koans Explained: "If You Love, Love Openly"
Hamilton Nolan · 08/22/14 03:25PMZen Koans Explained: "Everything Is Best"
Hamilton Nolan · 08/15/14 01:57PMI Can't Stop Reading This History of Experimentation With Laughing Gas
Adam Weinstein · 08/07/14 04:13PM"O, Tom! Such a gas has Davy discovered... O, Tom! I have had some; it made me laugh and tingle in every toe and finger-tip. Davy has actually invented a new pleasure for which language has no name. O, Tom! I am going for more this evening; it makes one strong and so happy, so gloriously happy! O, excellent air-bag!"