/lit/ - Literature

>>18305550
the secret is that you have to relax your fingers

>with answers
I'm triggered. The point of a koan is that it has no answer, it's just a subject to think on and expand your comprehension of the world to work on the path towards enlightenment.

what is this, a profit grab from charlatans?

>>18306484
>what is this, a profit grab from charlatans?
answer: without a word, the pupil takes a shit

>>18306484
If you actually knew the tradition you'd know that some "answers" are so perfectly deficient that they themselves are koans.

Also that Zen ossified into a final year testing system for lower aristocratic children, like the Western University, leading to rote learning of things which were once koans.

Also if you're triggered here opens the gates of hel/.

>>18306484
>what is this, a profit grab from charlatans?
it has two jewish names in the cover, plus an illustration that looks like a jew, so what do you think?

>>18305550
why is it by jews

Please tell me one hand clapping isnt a koan because i can clap with one hand.

>>18307646
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUzbmIKVAHo

>>18308269
How is it supposed to clear my mind?

>>18307646
Buddhism is bullshit anon

>>18306484
I have this edition and the answers are often more confusing than the koans. For example, the "answer" to the famous "sound of one hand clapping" koan is to extend your open palm forward and yell "MU!" The answers are like their own additional koan.

>>18308926
>yell "MU!"
Pajeets do love their cows don’t they

>>18308926
>extend your open palm forward and yell "MU!"
That's funny, I did the same thing to your mom last week

>>18308926
Mu means "nothingness."
The hand pushing against the air is too provide the force needed to clap with two hands, and shouting MU is like announcing SILENCE to the world. It's pretty simple.

>>18309151
*hits you with my stick* you failed

>>18306484
>I'm triggered
You would be.
You know when you're the guy who doesn't get the joke, and all your pals pull your leg with explanations that make fun of you, and you still don't get it?
You can either piss yourself about how stupid you are, or you can laugh because it's all just good fun

>>18309372
I'll throw your stick in a fire and I'll warm myself with it

>>18309463
First you got to get a hold of it, cricket

>>18309474
*chirps*

>>18309463
It was a stick, of dynamite. Pichow!

>>18309492
I fucking love this guy, this is top rate comedy and 4chan posting *praises you*

>>18309492
:O

Bumpe.

>>18305550
>that title
sounds like my diary desu

>>18306484
>a profit grab from charlatans?
>hoffmann
>burstein

>>18307618
>>18307623
>>18310824
>ME NOT LIKE JOO! JOO CONSPIRACY IS WHY I LIVE WITH MOM EVEN THOUGH I AM VERY SUPERIOR

>>18306484
What?

If you read the answers you are already wrong
If you remember the answers you've read you're wrong
If you don't think about them you're wrong
If you try to answer reasonably you're wrong
I am wrong

>>18308301
It's not
It's supposed to fill up all available space within your mind so that you are obsessed by it and only it for a sufficient period of time
If you are not obsessed, if there is the littlest nook or cranny for other thoughts to sink their talons in, it will not work
When you reach this state of obsession, you are ready for real meditation on the koan

>>18311021
Jews, like whores and mongrels, love to ruin classical works of art. The jew who contrived the answers to these sayings is either missing the point of the koan entirely, or injecting his own judaical bullshit into it. He ruined it regardless.