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JF and Phil tackle Genjokoan, a profound and puzzling work of philosophy by Dogen Zenji. In it, the 13th-century Zen master ponders the question, "If everything is already enlightened, why practice Zen?" As a lapsed Zen practitioner ("a shit buddhist") with many hours of meditation under his belt, Phil draws on personal experience to dig into Dogen's strange and startling answers, while JF speaks from his perspective as a "decadent hedonist." "When one side is illumined," says Dogen, "the other is dark." For proof of this utterance, you could do worse than listen to this episode of Weird Studies.

REFERENCES

Dogen Zenji, Genjokoan
\nShohaku Okumura and the Sanshin Zen Community in Bloomington, Indiana
\nPeter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life
\nWeird Studies, Episode 8: "On Graham Harman's 'The Third Table'"
\nGilles Deleuze, Cinema 1: The Movement Image
\nJun'ichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows
\nThomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
\nHenri Bergson, Matter and Memory
\nS\xf8ren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
\nJoris-Karl Huysmans, \xc0 Rebours (Against Nature)
\nChogyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism