Sensei, you might appreciate this Zen koan from the sayings of Master Joshu: Nansen saw the monks of the eastern and western halls fighting over a cat. He seized the cat and told the monks: `If any of you say a good word, you can save the cat.' No one answered. So Nansen boldly cut the cat in two pi...

Greetings Burners Everywhere! I'm seeking Burning Man participants to contribute to my ethnographic survey on spirituality and religion at the Burning Man festival. I hope to gather a wide variety of ideas on these subjects--from *all* perspectives. Why? Well, the parallels between Burning Man and "...