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The head is conscious while the abdomen is unconscious. When the master tells his disciples to "think" with the lower part of the body, he means that the koan is to be taken down to the unconscious and not to the conscious field of consciousness.

— D. T. Suzuki Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis (1960)

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