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I've read the less than stellar reviews of this book and I see their point of view, but I also understand that VanderMeer is also turning the book itself into The Company or a sort of Area X, which explains the more or less "mesh like" feel of things
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“And above all, I will argue the necessity for preserving, against all shame, a demanding question of revolution itself, a question about utopia that keeps pushing its way through a field of failed aspirations, like a student at the back of the room who gets suddenly, violently, tired of being invisible.”
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“If we are open to this coming and going of our life,
if we penetrate into this moment that arises and falls, if we
pierce this moment of hope or fear with the needle of zazen, with the needle of mindfulness, then we are also
pierced to the heart. Because we realize that this moment
is the heart of our lives.”
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if we penetrate into this moment that arises and falls, if we
pierce this moment of hope or fear with the needle of zazen, with the needle of mindfulness, then we are also
pierced to the heart. Because we realize that this moment
is the heart of our lives.”
―
“All the dogmatists have been terrified by the lion’s roar of shunyata. Wherever they may reside, shunyata lies in wait!
Nagarjuna: Master of Wisdom: Writitngs of the Buddhist Mastar Nagarjuna”
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Nagarjuna: Master of Wisdom: Writitngs of the Buddhist Mastar Nagarjuna”
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