Philosophy · Eastern & Comparative Philosophy
A topic within Eastern & Comparative Philosophy, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
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Wumen Huikai
Collects forty-eight koans meant not to be solved by ordinary reasoning but to exhaust it, on the premise that awakening happens only once discursive thought has run out of road.
link failing as of 17 Sept 2026D. T. Suzuki
Introduces Zen to a Western audience as training aimed at satori, a direct non-conceptual insight, arguing Zen escapes ordinary logic and doctrine by design rather than by obscurity.