kracked koan

[Lightning Rod]

The Salvidore Lama

Hello Dali Zen Surrealism

I get it all mixed up

I don't know my karma from my dharma

darn it, the Siddhartha quick

are you now or have you ever been a buddhist?

not in this life

[westcoast]

*gong*

love it

~westie

[jweeble]

Very nice! Made me smile and think at the same time ...

[Lightning Rod]

thanks jw and westie,

I was smiling when I wrote it

[mnaz]

My favorite koan was that one when someone answered a stumbling utterance of mine with "Is that some kind of koan?"

But seriously, I liked that one about the Buddha who finally asked the guy who'd been standing outside the gate watching for awhile why he didn't come in. Outside?

And I can't believe Jack K had the nerve to write an ice cream koan. That just sucks.

[Doreen Peri]

I didn't understand it.

[mnaz]

To me, that's always been part of the koan attraction.

There I go again, with 'me' and 'that'. Shameless.

[Doreen Peri]

The only koan I know about is koan bread.



Is that where Lrod got the "cracked" part?

as in

"Jimmy cracked koan and I don't care."

?

[Lightning Rod]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koan

koans are like poems, doreen
you are not supposed to know what they mean

[Doreen Peri]

Yeah, I knew the definition.

That was the funny part.

Definition

A kōan (公案; Japanese: kōan, Chinese: gōng-àn, Korean: gong'an, Vietnamese: công án) is a story, dialogue, question, or statement in the history and lore of Chán (Zen) Buddhism, generally containing aspects that are inaccessible to rational understanding

My reply to your koan.

I didn't understand it.

Get it?

[Lightning Rod]

then it was a perfect koan

duh

[Doreen Peri]

Exactly!

And so was my comment.

(since you didn't get it and all )

heh

[mnaz]

Is there an 'it'?

[Doreen Peri]

Is there an 'it'?

Yes. It's what I don't get.
Unless that's not what you mean.

There ya go! Is there an it? is a koan!

[YABYUM]

Just reading all the comments in this thread are making me swear off the koans forever. Such a headache.