Sublime

Koans will change your idea of who you are, and this will require courage.

Can you find where this moment comes from or where it goes home to?

Bodhidharma’s Vast Emptiness

This koan resists the totalitarian impulse in spiritual paths.

And sometimes, wondrously, you might find that an old

He decided that this insight was what made Yantou seem so objective; Yantou didn’t have an idea of Yantou that he had to groom and manicure.

When I was off balance, koans pushed me further off balance and into unknown territory. I liked that. I was always struggling to have things make sense, and koans allowed me, or required me, to work with life more the way an artist would, loving especially the material that didn’t

It’s not a discipline or a good thing