Write a Koan!

[finalfrogo]

A koan is defined as a puzzling, often paradoxical statement or story, used in Zen Buddhism as an aid to meditation and a means of gaining spiritual awakening. Some simple examples of koans that you may be familiar with are:

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make sound?

What did you look like before your ancestors were born?

Try writing your own... Can others answer it without their brains imploding? :bonk:

 

[MysticSang'ha]

Here's my attempt at a Zen koan.



You are not reading this statement. What, then, are you doing right now?





Peace,
Mystic

 

[EnhancedSpirit]

If God sees the world through your eyes, what are you showing him today?

 

[michel]

If fear is being afraid of the unknown, what is fear of being afraid?

 

[Ori]

If i'm not wearing any pants today, where did they go?

 

[finalfrogo]

:biglaugh:

 

[Buttons*]

:biglaugh:

haha, you make the best threads for silliness

 

[mr.guy]

Don't think of a monkey!

 

[Nehustan]

I have to post the ultimate Zen Koan, taken from the mouth of Joshu...

"Mu!"
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[1nharmony]

If I'm not part of the solution, am I part of the formulating ingredients?

 

[Mister Emu]

"If it hadn't been for the horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college"
I have to give credit Lewis Black.

 

[finalfrogo]

:biglaugh: Lewis Black is one of my favorite comedians.

 

[Quoth The Raven]

If I'm not part of the solution, am I part of the formulating ingredients?

Nup, you're the precipitate.

 

[ChrisP]

If fear is being afraid of the unknown, what is fear of being afraid?

healthy!

if my left shoe is on my right foot, where is my right shoe?

 

[EnhancedSpirit]

Karma may not return today, or tomorrow, but it WILL return with incredible accuracy.

 

[Master Vigil]

When my taoist master started teaching me about chi, this was my first task...

Put your right hand infront of you palm towards your stomach. Now put your left hand behind you, palm towards your back. Now clap your hands without moving them around your body, or touching your stomach.

That was my first lesson in energy work.

But as for a zen koan, I always liked...

When you drop something, does it fall downwards? Or are you the one upside down?

 

[EnhancedSpirit]

If there was a crumb on the table and you cut it in half, would you have two crumbs or two halves of a crumb?

 

[finalfrogo]

:biglaugh: Oh I like that

 

[finalfrogo]

But I would say both, because the two individual pieces would still fit the definition of a crumb, therefore they would each be a separate crumb. However, since you DID divide a crumb into two in order to create the two individual pieces, they would be half of that original crumb, and therefore they would each be half a crumb. I love exercising my brain like this!

 

[finalfrogo]

Your left foot?