It emphasizes dharma practice and experiental wisdom—particularly as realized in the form of meditation known as zazen—in the attainment of awakening. As such, it de-emphasizes both theoretical knowledge and the study of religious texts in favor of direct individual assessment of one's own experience.
So waste not your time on lemon religious texts. Seek not scripture to understand the nuances of lemoness. Only direct individual assessment of one's own experience will lead to true wisdom.
In other words, taste the lemon bar.
Thus, this week's lemon bar was the essence of lemonicity, for even a clean palate strained to find the slightest hint of lemon in its sugary goodness. Of course it's there, but one must be worthy to discover that trace, that citrus awakening. Pehaps a real lemon passed nearby when the lemon bar was created. Perhaps the lemon bar, in a previous life, was the third cousin to a lemon (twice removed). Or maybe the lemon bars are merely downwind of that big jar full of lemons found near the ice tea.
Who can say? That is the Zen of Lem(on).
Even the folks at Wiki know this. For in defining lemon, they note: "The exact origin of the lemon has remained a mystery..."
'nuff said.
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The "Zen of Lem" you say? WASTE NOT YOUR TIME ON LEMON TEXTS you say?
I say the road to doom is paved with such divisive rhetoric.
Behold, the truth:
Lemon Bars
This recipe can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.
Makes 24 bars.
4 large eggs
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
3/4 cup fresh lemon juice
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
hot shortbread base
3 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
Preheat oven to 350°F.
In a bowl whisk together eggs and granulated sugar until combined well and stir in lemon juice and flour. Pour lemon mixture over hot shortbread. Reduce oven temperature to 300°F. and bake confection in middle of oven until set, about 30 minutes. Cool completely in pan and cut into 24 bars. Bar cookies keep, covered and chilled, 3 days. Sift confectioners' sugar over bars before serving.
The flaw here, of course, is the part where it says "stir in lemon juice." I'm fairly sure no lemon juice is shaken or stirred near the infamous lemon bars.
Clearly this text must be deconstructed. I sense a dominant cultural paradigm at work.
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