'Peace Keeper' warheads descending onto a Pacific test area circa 1979. The world, via neoconservative policy, is now resorting to the age old 'Peace Through Strength' policy to resolve global conflicts (update 106).

 

"Taking it all in all, Zen is emphatically a matter of personal experience; if anything can be called radically empirical, it is Zen. No amount of reading, no amount of teaching, no amount of contemplation will ever make one a Zen master. Life itself must be grasped in the midst of its flow; to stop it for examination and analysis is to kill it, leaving its cold corpse to be embraced."