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This is koan thread.
This is first koan:
A monk asked Yun Men, "What are the teachings of a whole
lifetime?"
Yun Men said, "An appropriate statement."
This is excerpt from Yuanwu's comment on the case:
People often misunderstand and say, "Buddha's preaching
was appropriate to the conditions of one time." Or they say,
"The multitude of appearances and myriad forms are all the
impressions of a single truth and call this "an appropriate
statement." Then there are those who say, "It's just talking
about that one truth." What connection is there? Not only do
they not understand, they also enter hell as fast as an arrow
flies. They are far from knowing that the meaning of that man
of old is not like this.
Now solve!
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The fart of a butterfly.
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>>2066306
are you suppose to just meditate and have the koan in your mind, is it even possible in translation
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Who is it who now repeats the Buddha's name?
Who is dragging this corpse about?
What is this?
What is it?
What was the original face before my father and mother were born?
Who am I?
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>>2066306
If it wasn't your milk, then who's was it?
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How does anyone in the western world think these are solvable when they're nothing but obscure Chinese memes? These Zen anecdotes are the closest thing to 4chan I've ever seen in pre-internet history
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>>2068585
I mean for example, what the fuck does "appropriate statement" even mean? You can easily tell that there's no way that's a good translation of the Chinese just from the commentary
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>>2066306
My favorite koan: "Who was phone?"
2deep.
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>>2066392
tat vam arsi
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>>2068649
who wants to know?
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