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from Book Reading/2026
from way-seeking mind
  • Ran across this phrase in Zen and the White Whale, not for the first time but today it struck me. For a moment I felt I knew what it meant, although that feeling quickly undermined itself.

Zen and the White Whale

02 Mar 2026 - 02 Mar 2026
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    • A Zen reading of Moby Dick. book by Daniel Herman
    • Only skimming but the section headings are evocative

    • Melville's Encounters with Buddhism

    • Ishmael's Way-Seeing Mind

    • Moby Dick's Inscrutable Selflessness

    • Captain Ahab's Universe

      • The final image of the bird nailed to the masthead as it sinks – symbolic of how each character is doomed by their fixed identity Ishmael and the coffin escape this. (p167)