#Zen #Buddhism #Anarchy

More #ZenAnarchy #AnarchoBuddhism, this time from Max Cafard on #TheAnarchistLibrary.

Buddhism, especially Zen, is one of the oldest extant anarchic traditions with a written record. It rejects authority, principle, separation, and attachment in favor of practice, compassion, freeing the mind and Buddha-nature within us, interconnectedness, and emptiness of form. Rather than drawing a distinction between the sacred and the ordinary, or the self and the other, Buddhism invites us to recognize those things within each other. It invited us to embrace the absurd and allow ourselves to be free from logic.

How can I say, here is a chair and here is a desk?

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/max-cafard-zen-anarchy