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View submission: A Couple of Questions Regarding Koans
There is a book called something about "Householder Koans", which makes an attempt in this direction.
More accurately, probably, some Seung Sahn books include student interactions with him which could probably qualify as koans.
Thing is, why would we need new ones? One answer is that some of the nuance of some classic koans is lost in the linguistic, cultural and historic shift between classical China and the modern West. But a little context and explanation can be enough to deal with that. The entry koans, we don't need any more of. We have mu, we have your original face before your parents were born, we have one hand clapping. The post-awakening koans, maybe we could do with new ones, but it's worth asking what doesn't suffice about the ones used for generations on end.
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