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How do we explain the unexplainable? This question has inspired numerous myths, religious practices and scientific inquiries. But Zen Buddhists practicing throughout China from the 9th to 13th century asked a different question – why do we need an explanation? Puqun Li details the bewildering and ambiguous philosophical thought experiments these Buddhists called Zen kōans.
Lesson by Puqun Li, directed by Cabong Studios.
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So this is a collection of weapons to destroy AI when they'll try to conquer the world.
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Zen Koans: The original "It do be like that sometimes."
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They're not meant to break your brain, they're meant to help us realize that our brains are broken.
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I know the sound of one hand clapping. It's a slap.
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There're many short lessions in Buddhism. I like this one: "I want happiness, how get it?", "Just remove I and Want, there is Happiness".
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"Unlike real court cases, koans were intentionally incomprehensible — they were surprising, surreal, and frequently contradicted themselves" oh dear, I may have some bad news for you about 'real' court cases.
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"Ugh, Colonel. I keep trying to solve this Koan, but my hands are dummy thicc, and the sound of one hand clapping keeps alerting the other monks."
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In western (American/BCA) Jodoshinshu Buddhism (which does not have monks nor does it typically employ koans or meditation) the flag story goes as follows: During meditation one monk broke the silence, observing aloud, "Flag is flapping". Another corrected, "Wind is flapping ". A third monk chimed in, "No, the mind is flapping". Finally, the head monk broke their attachnent to the debate, saying: "Mouths are flapping".
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Origin of shower thoughts
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“Says we shouldn’t try to explain the koans”
“Explains every single one”
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0:16 straight up thought he had morning wood until I saw his other foot
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...were intentionally incomprehensible. They were surprising, surreal, and frequently contradicted themselves."
Youtube commentators in a nutshell.
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"Only a Sith deals in absolutes"
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"I left the traveler there, are you still carrying her?"
What a profound insight, applicable to so many of life's troubles. We'we all been the outraged monk at some point, still being weighted down by the negative emotions of troubles past.
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'I left the traveler there. Are you still carrying her?'
Is solution to most of my problems i didn't even recognise then...
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12th century: Zen koans
21st century: Yanny or Laurel?
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Answering the "Why" will always add another "Why".
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• First monk: "the flag flapping"
• Second monk: "the wind flapping"
• Third monk: "the mind flapping"
• The drunkard laying on the ground nearby: "their mouths flapping.."
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I would like the entire Blue Cliff Records and Gateless Gate done in this style, please.
The thing about Koans is that they aren't just weird riddles, most of them have some nuanced but fairly straightforward point about ethics or ontology. The traveling monks one says, pretty unambiguously, that compassionate action takes precedence over monastic rules. The rules exist to help detach from desires, but attachment to the rules themselves misses the point of non-attachment in the first place. The monk 'leaving the traveler behind' also illustrates what it means to act in a way that is compassionate but detached, which is sort of the ethical paradox Buddhism seeks to navigate. Of course, that's all my interpretation, but interpretation is basically the point of Koans.
One of my favorites (paraphrased) is about a monk who's saving up to construct a statue of the Buddha or a new temple or something, but then there's a drought in his region, so he spends the money he's saved up to help feed the people. After the drought is over he begins saving up again, but then there's a flood, and he spends the money to repair the damages. Finally, the third time he's able to save up and have the statue built. Later, two monks are visiting the temple, and the younger one remarks to the older, "isn't this a magnificent representation of the Buddha?" The older monk thinks for a moment, then nods. "It's good, but the first two were better."
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@jjsmith706
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"I left the traveler there. Are you still carrying her?" #ZenBurn
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