Complementary Texts
The texts gathered in this section develop some of the questions that arise from the essay Zen, Metaphor and Ethics and that, because of their scope or the context from which they are approached, fall outside its main line of argument.
They are not intended to extend its argument or to constitute additional chapters. Each independently explores some of its questions: how representations participate in everyday experience, what happens when they are socially shared, and what relationship may be established between these questions and certain traditional Japanese practices.
They can be read separately and in any order. Taken together, they offer different perspectives from which to return to the same question: the difference between what happens and the representations through which we interpret it.
Representation in Everyday Experience
An approach to how interpretations, memories, anticipations, and learning may participate in our experience without our noticing their involvement.
Representation and Social Reality
An exploration of what happens when representations are shared and come to organize our common life, our institutions, and our conflicts.
From Map to Experience: The Practice of Dō
A reflection on the conditions that certain traditional Japanese practices may offer for recognizing what usually remains unnoticed in our experience.
A Practical Reading of Karatedō
A reading of Karate ni sente nashi from the distinction between representation and reality developed in the essay.