Koan on the Self

The Undecided said:
Maybe I need to find myself a teacher.

TU:p
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Well they're mainly associated with the Rinzai school and that is how I thought it was done. Your koan is personal to you, based upon your teacher's awareness of your "need". But don't quote me. :rolleyes:

s.
 
Snoopy said:


I didn't know you meant just me!!!

...bet he nicked Dasein off Dōgen ;)

- Uji :
“Being-time.”
U means “Being”
Jimeans “Time”

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s.
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cheers for that, now I have to grapple with Dogens abstruse terminology as well! [good site for 'being and time' here btw .http://www.hinau.co.nz/Heidegger.htm

Kinda refuted the source of his use in a latter thread http://www.interfaith.org/forum/existentialism-vs-the-existentialists-11957.html#post211961

like that article said Whitehead's process thought seems more realisable as a paradigm for the 'discontinuity/continuity' conundrum, but yet to fully immerse in it:confused:
 
Thanks nativeastral for the link to the halexandria site. It will take a while to sift through. Meister Eckhart's words on the eternal now are quite in tune with the video above. I might start a thread on that topic later.

For the moment (whether eternal or fleeting), there is a Jainist text ( Akaranga Sutra) with a passage that offers an alternative to zen views. It has more in common with the Cartesian, "I think therefore I am".

"The self is the knower (or experiencer), and the knower is the Self. That through which one knows is the Self. With regard to this (to know) it (the Self) is established."

The zen response, perhaps, would be to say, To cease to know is to cease to be obstructed by concepts of a self.
 
I do not care for these particular Koans. :eek:

Can someone please give their best Koan here ? Perhaps if there are several we can choose the best Koan on this thread ?
 
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