Essay Nine - Politics - Written during the 2010 midterm elections in America, a deep, lucid, sane look into the politics of the Zen hierarchies, and politics in general. The show opens with the 9th case of Zen Master Seung Sahn’s Road to Enlightenment - Nagarjuna and Kanadeva - an unpublished manuscript from 1965. The music interlude - Blonde Redhead - Fake Can Be Just As Good - Ego Maniac Kid