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    in high school and was recruited to North Dakota University to play basketball after graduation. While attending the college‚ Phil helped his team win third-and fourth-place finishes in the NCAA Division II championships. Jackson was known as the “Zen Master” to the game of basketball. In 1967‚ Phil Jackson was drafted

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    Natalia Cooper Mrs. McGreevy Period 5 7 January 2014 TOK Winter Break Assignments Chapter 10: To me what is appealing about science is that it provides insight and a chance of understanding the world in which I live – however the detail in which Phaedrus studies each hypothesis and how his curiosity and list of hypotheses to test grows is what I do not like about science. I am not a rather curious or imaginative person and I see no purpose in studying the world in such depth…some of the complicated

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    I used to think that I knew what quality was. But after reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance‚ I realized I hadn’t even scratched the surface as to what quality really is. As Pirsig has said‚ quality cannot even be defined since it precedes every intellectual construction of it. Although this may be true‚ I will attempt to do so for the sake of this paper‚ both in terms of romantic and classical viewpoints. In reading my paper‚ I hope people can better understand where they stand on the

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    are key principles in Zen Buddhism. These themes include: the importance of balance‚ the disapproval of logical thinking‚ and enlightenment. Salinger was questioning his religious views after the war. He turned to Zen Buddhism as his new perspective on life. You can tell his stories were influenced by his religion because most of the common themes throughout Nine Stories‚ a short story cycle‚ represent Zen ways of thinking. If a reader did not have a basic understanding of Zen Buddhism they may have

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    part voyage of self-discovery could‚ on the face of it be said to have been conceived and executed pretty much along the lines of Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. 1 However there are a number of subtle differences in style and approach‚ which I believe distances this book somewhat from Mr. Pirsig’s seminal work. Whilst Zen catalogues one man’s personal odyssey both literally and philosophically‚ Miss Pierson’s journey not only encompasses those liberally sampled intellectual

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    According to Zen master‚ Kosho Uchiyama‚ when thoughts and fixation on the little ’I ’ are transcended‚ an Awakening to a universal‚ non-dual Self occurs: ’ When we let go of thoughts and wake up to the reality of life that is working beyond them‚ we discover the

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    On The Catcher in the Rye : An American Koan Joseph Dewey America‚ it appears‚ is in the uneasy twilight of the Age of the Novel. Even the most ardent readers—and the most dedicated English teachers—acknowledge that. Given the sheer reach that visual tech- nologies have achieved in just fifty years—film‚ advertising‚ televi- sion‚ video games‚ and‚ supremely‚ the Internet—the act (and art) of reading the printed word has been gracelessly shuffled off to the mar- gins. Americans are now pixel-fed

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    For everyone who doesn’t like going to school you would probably rather be a knight than a Samurai. Knights learned singing and dancing and they didn’t learn how to read or write. Samurai had to go to school and learn how to read and write. In this essay I will compare Samurai & Knights Religious Beliefs‚ Views on women‚ Weapons & Armor. Samurai also had to commit seppuku if they were captured which was a form of ritual suicide which knights did not. In the first paragraph I will write about

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    BUDDHISM Nancy Ellison Katrina Gilliard Kastina Cole Rel/133 February 3‚ 2014 Rev Lewis E. Hoye INTRODUCTION Buddhism is one of the world’s oldest and most significant religions. It has spread through almost all of Asia‚ it had its beginnings in India and arose from one person. Siddhartha Gautama‚ became to be known as the Buddha‚ or the awakened One. A growing number of schools of philosophy taught new ways of thinking. THERAVADA BUDDHISM THE WAY OF THE ELDERS     Describe the significant

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    Relgst 0525 (Hist 0475): Religion & Culture in East Asia Class Notes January 7‚ 2014 Zeno’s “Paradox” Paradox of the arrow If an archer puts force on an arrow towards a target‚ one can see the archer touching the target. The problem according to Zeno is that the arrow does not hit the target. It is impossible. The arrow cannot hit the target. Cause (beginning‚ starts) – space/time (gravity) – > effect (end‚ finish) Four nouns: Body‚ bow‚ arrow‚ target Einstein: At some point in time and space

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