the clown

[Steve Dekorte]

Ran across this quote and thought it would be of interest to other Ligotti readers:

The light touch of this comic spirit is no sacrilege. It confers resiliency, impregnability. The person who has truly realized this spirit in Zen is well on the Way. Has has arrived at the same kind of "invincibility that has often been noticed in the person of the clown or fool. He cannot finally be conquered, defeated or killed; for the Achilles' heel of Ego, attachment and desire is not there"

- Zen and the Brain

[G. S. Carnivals]

Ran across this quote and thought it would be of interest to Ligotti other readers:

The light touch of this comic spirit is no sacrilege. It confers resiliency, impregnability. The person who has truly realized this spirit in Zen is well on the Way. Has has arrived at the same kind of "invincibility that has often been noticed in the person of the clown or fool. He cannot finally be conquered, defeated or killed; for the Achilles' heel of Ego, attachment and desire is not there"

- Zen and the Brain
I has has arrived. :eek:, :eek:, and :eek:!

[Judge Holden]

There is some resonance here with the Fool in the Tarot deck. In fact, many interpretations of this Major Arcana mirror what you say about the Zen fool.