Ch. 1: A Parable About a Parable 2/2-2/8
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After looking in the book, I realized the author frames each chapter for collaboration within a group. He ends the chapter with questions to discuss and activities. I will include those here as optional prompts, feel free to use them, or feel free to share whatever you'd like!
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Let every member of the group try to explain or interpret Kafka's parable and the Zen Master's response.
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Observe whether a consensus emerges from this discussion or each person finds a personal and unique meaning.
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I am going to give my short interpretation of the parable that I am not sure has any credence... I didn't understand it while reading, but after listening to it, thought that perhaps the man was wasting his time looking outward for the Law. Perhaps the door was guarded as a test and he needed to only look inward?
I think this is described in the chapter as "...the human intellect in general, always feasting on shadows in the absence of real Final Answers."