Rising Waves, Breathless Wind. Lacan, Zen and Adolescence: Illuminating Śūnyatā in the Dualism of Education

Abstract

Practising Receptance moves beyond simply receiving or accepting, as action in thinking, as intention towards openness to the other. Representations of us contrasted to the ‘real’ transcendental properties, founded in śūnyatā, sees us at the intersection of Lacan, Gadamer, and Zen Buddhism, where we have objects as they appear to us and objects that exist independently of us. How might we apprehend the reality of others and discern this reality from what we see?