02 Jan

Posted at 10:15h in Koan

"If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." -- Linji Yixuan   In the now, there is only one thing: the Everything. The Everything is manifested as an infinite number of seemingly independent things. Yet, as all things are interdependent, essentially all things are one thing. Thinking of things (like the Buddha) as independent is an illusion. Illusionary things create duality, the thing and all that is not the thing. On the road to enlightenment, we need to vanquish all illusions to realize the oneness of the Everything....

27 Dec

Posted at 10:20h in Koan

What does the universe look like from the other side of the mind, where there is no mind?...

21 Dec

Posted at 10:15h in Koan

Love is selfless. But when the self expresses love, that's selfish....

08 Dec

Posted at 10:15h in Koan

As God is the Everything, why is God rarely noticed in every thing?...

06 Dec

Posted at 10:15h in Koan

As the now moves at incomprehensible speeds, how can our senses inform us of the now?"   The Earth is rotating at 1,037 miles/hour and revolving around the sun at 66,616 miles/hour. Our solar system is revolving around the center of the Milky Way galaxy on average at 514,000 miles/hour. The Milky Way is moving towards the Andromeda Galaxy at 1,339,200 miles/hour. At these speeds, our senses cannot inform us of the now, yet the now seems stable and continuous. Our mind slows everything down and creates the now....

03 Oct

Posted at 10:15h in Koan

When a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?   Mu (nothing). There is no tree and there is no sound, other than the agency our individual consciousness grants the tree and sound....

02 Oct

Posted at 10:15h in Koan

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few." -- Shunryu Suzuki Experts think of possibilities based on their experience. The inexperienced are not likewise constrained....