Gödel, Escher, Bach An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Tortoise: Evidently not. What is the origin of the Geometric Code? Achilles: It came from an ancient master known as "Great Tuto ...
that if you took all such stories entirely seriously, you would miss the point as often as you would get it. Achilles: Maybe the ...
Tortoise: So tell me, what happens when you go against the arrows in the Central Dogma? Does that mean you begin with a string a ...
Tortoise: What are the other four legal starting positions? Achilles: Each one is a position considered to be a SELF-EVIDENT man ...
Achilles: No, any old order will do. Tortoise: Of course, then I would get a different string, and consequently a different koan ...
(He writes down the phonetic transcriptions, and then pulls from his pocket a couple of pieces of string, which he carefully fol ...
Achilles: What happened? Tortoise: I wanted to get rid of that knot. Achilles: But instead of untying it, you tied another one, ...
Tortoise: Quite a yarn. It's hard to believe it was really hidden inside my string. Achilles: Yet it was. Astonishingly, you see ...
Zen is like a man hanging in a tree by his teeth over a precipice. His hands grasp no branch, his feet rest on no limb, and unde ...
CHAPTER IX Murnon and G6dei What Is Zen? I'M NOT SURE I know what Zen is. In a way, I think I understand it very well; but in a ...
FIGURE 46. Three Worlds, by M. C. Escher (lithograph, /955). ...
Koan: Hogen of Seiryo monastery was about to lecture before dinner when he noticed that the bamboo screen, lowered for meditatio ...
FIGURE 47. Dewdrop, by M. C. Escher (mezzotint, 1948). Mumon's Commentary: Old Nansen gave away his treasure-words. He must have ...
FIGURE 48. Another World, by M. C. Escher (wood-engraving, 1947). Here is another koan which aims to break the mind of logic:^4 ...
"Oh, how can you lie like this?" asked Doko. "But if I have no tongue to talk to others, how can I lie to you?" asked the master ...
FIGURE 49. Day and Night, by M. C. Escher (woodcut, 1938). Mumon's Commentary: If you call this a short staff, you oppose its re ...
Zen people is: what else is there to rely on, but words? Mumon states the dilemma very clearly: "It cannot be expressed with wor ...
This curious statement seems to abound with paradox. It is a little reminiscent of this surefire cure for hiccups: "Run around t ...
Apparently the master wants to get across the idea that an enlightened state is one where the borderlines between the self and t ...
FIGURE 51. Puddle, by .W. C. Escher (woodcut, 1952). (Fig. 48)-pictures that play with reality and unreality the same way as Zen ...
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