For the last 8 years I have been engaged in actual Zen practice, working on actual Zen koans with an actual Zen teacher in an actual Zen lineage that can be acc

For the last 8 years I have been engaged in actual Zen practice, working on actual Zen koans with an actual Zen teacher in an actual Zen lineage that can be accurately traced back for a millennium or so. I will say that Aaronsen's "Zen Anti-Interpretation or quantum mechanics" has, as far as I can tell, an odd resonance with actual Zen. One of the koans I worked with recently: """ A monk once went to Högen of Seiryo before the midday meal to ask for instruction. Högen pointed to the bamboo blinds with his hand. At that moment, two monks who were there went over to the blinds and rolled them up in the same manner. Högen said, "One has gained, one has lost." """ A key aspect to the koan is that by "in the same manner" it is meant that there is actually no difference between them in any normal sense; Högen doesn't have access to some inner state of the monks that we don't have. But Högen was a great Zen master and knew what he was doing.