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Zen offers a similar contingency plan for the ego. Your ego is Superman. It is powerful, invulnerable, and convinced it is the hero. Your mindfulness is Kryptonite.

And here is the Zen lesson: He fell into the void and never built a bridge back. He saw that nothing matters, and he stopped there. zen-bat01

In Zen Buddhism, there is a famous koan: “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” It is a riddle without a logical answer, designed to short-circuit the rational mind and force a leap into intuition. Zen offers a similar contingency plan for the ego