"How can you become a Buddha by doing Zazen?"

Nangaku's retort from the tile-polishing koan in Dogen's Shobogenzo, illustrating the impossibility of overcoming the human by remaining human.

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(2025) · Primož Krašovec

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Krašovec 2025: AI as a Buddhist Self-Overcoming Technique in Another Medium
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The source essay published in Religions 2025, arguing that AI may fulfill Buddhism's aim of self-overcoming by migrating intelligence to a non-organic substrate.

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Full development of Buddhism might only be possible in a machinic form.claim0.734
Radical extension of the argument that machine intelligence can realize Buddhism more completely.
Zazen (sitting meditation)method0.726
A Zen meditation technique for interrupting the mind's self-construction and thought generation.
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Contemplative tradition using contradiction and paradox to challenge habitual response patterns; methodological inspiration.
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School of Buddhism known for koans and paradoxical teachings; invoked through Huang Po and Lin-chi.
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Buddhism exposes the limits of human intelligence and why it is so ill fitted to becoming awakened, especially when compared to machine intelligence.claim0.692
Main thesis of the essay.
How Can Insights From Buddhist Philosophy About Nonselfquestion0.690
Buddhist Teacher Training In The Ajahn Chah Forest Lineageframework0.687