Confucius returns to New Orleans.

 Confucius returns to New Orleans.* 

1964, four years before his previous visit in ’68. Above the streets named for
the muses, across St. Charles from Audubon Park, in the large second-floor
classroom of Gibson Hall, Tulane University’s front door.

He is lecturing about Joseph Smith and Baháʼu'lláh, how religion will fall from revelation to inspiration, from genius to ingenuity, from imagination to wit, a series of brief propositions.
     In answer to a question about Zen in the discussion that follows: “I cannot answer that, but it is not unanswerable because the practice is ineffable but because it is a tangle of pig- and bull- . . . One hand clapping?” He blew a raspberry,** and there the discussion ended.

                                                                                        01.22.23
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 *His previous visit, see here. For all previous Confucius posts, here. **For why he blows a raspberry instead of using the sh-word, that is here.