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View submission: A Couple of Questions Regarding Koans
They are shocking to elicit the very thing koan practice is designed to cut through - the content of your own mind. Koans cannot be answered with thinking or any rational answer. There is no correct word based answer to a koan. A koan is designed to tie up your thinking and make it useless, to draw out the very source of delusion and slice through it.
There's nothing here!