"(Referring to ideograms, ancient sophia, and Zen practice) The latter, for example, is an exercise that teaches us to inhabit the exercise itself. There is no answer to the question of why we should focus on breathing. In Zen practice, the why is sucked into the concentration itself. In the same way, philosophers today can only inhabit doubt. Not asking why doubt exists, a question that would presuppose a way out of it, but practicing it. A bit like Socrates did more than two thousand years ago. And it is no coincidence that he never wrote anything."
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