A recent Pre-Texts training session at Harvard took an unexpected turn: participants decided they no longer needed a facilitator. The text for the session — Genjōkōan by Dōgen Zenji, a 13th-century Zen master — presented no small challenge. Dense, philosophical, and ancient, it asks what it means to study the self and forget the self.
The group moved forward on their own. That decision — to trust the protocol over the facilitator — may be the clearest proof that Pre-Texts works.
