Koan #4

What Is A Koan? The purpose of a koan is to get you out of your head and into your heart. The heart just lives the moment. It is not concerned with the future or the past.

“A koan is a fundamental part of the history and lore of Zen Buddhism. It consists of a story, dialogue, question, or statement whose meaning cannot be accessed by rational thinking, yet it may be accessible by intuition.”

Know who you are.

Be what you know.

We should seek to understand our intrinsic nature and then attempt to live with what we know.

It is easy to have a momentary insight into our essential nature, but then only to hold on to it as a philosophical idea. What we should do is to return to this insight constantly to make it a living reality.

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