A Substack follow-up to Meditation: What and Why in response to Tom Carroll’s query. And then we’ll ‘swim the Ganges.’ But I might not get to the Ganges tomorrow since I’ll be heading to the shooting range.
The neo-Kantian German philosopher Eugen Herrigel wrote a book entitled Zen in the Art of Archery. Tomorrow I will practice Zen and the Art of Handgunnery. Can you trigger an explosion a couple of inches from your face without flinching or moving the gun, with equanimity and detachment from the outcome, hitting a bulls-eye eleven yards off?