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Pastimes : Muffy's Story: A Short Story Game for Would Be Authors -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Carolyn who wrote (763)	5/7/2025 8:24:05 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 766

Zen masters cut through identify and the "self" until there is no cutter and nothing to be cut. That Koan is a famous one designed to show the student how illusory and transient his notion of Self/Ego is. It forces the student to take a long view of their reality. In Zen, the answer from another master is either an action or another Koan. It's never a philosophical discussion as you have in the west. Archer delivers both. Perhaps he is on the verge of enlightenment. Archer gets it. He goes through the 7 stages of grief in seconds, and gets it. His actions, stillness in the face extreme inner turmoil and expressed with a handful of sand proves this. But Archer also presents a different Koan, one that is rooted in Taoism and is wrapped in a Koan. Alcantara bridge has stood for thousands of years without support. It is a compaction structure held together on by its own stress. Archer is fundamentally questioning what the Zen master is doing. Does he really think that the bridge is better off as fluid sand and would he "free" the bridge and turn it into sand. This is not conversation that anyone unfamiliar with eastern philosophy would get. But I hope that the story still leaves a mark and is appreciated by most people.