"Reason operates in contemporary life under such heavy unconscious conditioning from science that it might be good for us if at certain times, for certain purposes, we had a Western equivalent of the Zen koan to decommission reason, to simply knock it out, allay it, so it wouldn't get in our way." [Huston Smith, "The Reach and the Grasp: Transcendence Today," in Herbert W. Richardson & Donald R. Cutler (eds.), Transcendence 1-17, at __ (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969)]

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