- Teacher, what is the meaning of zen?
- Meditation.
- Zazen?
- Meditation sitting in a chair.
- What is its goal?
- The non-thinking.
- How may one achieve non-thinking by thinking?
- Just do it.
- Yesterday you said I should walk. Where to?
- The universe is boundless so intrinsically there is nowhere to walk to. Just walk.
- When shall I have my enlightment?
- The universe is timeless so "when" is meaningless. Enlightment will come on time, there is no such thing as too late. Keep moving.
Pic.: Master Lloyd Blankfein, the laughing buddha (looks like Papa J).
5 comments:
J, you should post about the new system of math בגרויות that is being planned.
It essentially acknowledges the bifurcation of the Israeli population into an intellectually elite segment and an intellectually mediocre segment.
Link: http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/333/661.html
How restrictive is the new math curriculum going to be in its tracking? I don't think it makes sense to restrict trig and calculus to only 5% of the student population. Not that they would set the standards to exclude so many people, but the article didn't specify how they expected to draw the boundaries.
I'm pretty sure they will leave the middle 4-unit track intact.
I think the high school curricula are purposefully designed to cause confusion and obfuscate. I could never understand the יחידות system.
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