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Old Dec 21, 2009, 10:28 PM
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Here's something I have been intrigued with recently: "benevolent sabotage". As a therapy technique. That is, not going for "insight" to solve problems, but devising sometimes sneaky techniques to start changes taking place, getting people out of ruts, out of unproductive cycles of behavior.
I think that's what Zen masters already do for a living.

101 Zen Stories, the same ones collected years ago by Paul Reps in Zen Flesh, Zen Bones. That particular website has relabeled them "koans" which (as far as I know) they aren't really.