Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Now what do you wish to call this?


 
 


Koan definition is - a paradox to be meditated upon that is used to train Zen Buddhist monks to abandon ultimate dependence on reason and to force them into gaining sudden intuitive enlightenment.

 
Shuzan held out his short staff and said,
 

If you call this a short staff, you oppose its reality.

If you do not call it a short staff, you ignore the fact.

Now what do you wish to call this?”

 

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