Koans are the folk stories of Zen Buddhism, metaphorical narratives that particularize essential nature.
Source: a Zen teaching, 1990
Koans are the folk stories of Zen Buddhism, metaphorical narratives that particularize essential nature.
Koan. A presentation of the harmony of the Universal and the Particular; a theme of Zazen to be made clear. A classic Mondo, or a Zen story.
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.