Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
14/ Apocalypse isn't an object of attention, 'over there.' It happens at the nexus where perception, value, agency, and responsibility reorganize. As such, genuine teachers resort to contradictions, koans, provocations—anything to jam immunological machinery rather than feed it.
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 22 Dec 2025
7/ Rinzai Zen notably turns this into explicit method. Koan practice deliberately engineers a state where conceptual mind can't reconcile its commitments. We are meant to come to a place where we can’t make the dissonance go away, and we stop trying to solve it conceptually.
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A diamond is nothing more than a lump of coal that handled stress very well. ~ Jeff Herring Nick Routledge Very funny. Very true.