koan

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a koan is a story, dialogue, question, or statement, which is used in Zen-practice to provoke the “great doubt”, and test a student’s progress in Zen practice.

it doesn’t seem to make sense until you penetrate the meaning, until you penetrate the layers that seeming reality covers up.

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