Ice: Water

When Koan and mind are one,
the master shows up.

Koan: Shifting perception

A word can not change your mind.

It is your perception of that word which can do it.

Working with a koan is working
with the shift of perception.

The answer is not as important
as the process by which you
reach that answer.

Mumonkan

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Thinking: Hishiryo

What is the sound of thought?

The old pine tree and the aurora: Dawning

The old pine tree asked the squirrel:


¿What is the colour of mind?

The sound of emptiness

Hui Neng asked the novice:

Under which bell hides the empty nut?

Appearances: Dreamlike

Hui Neng asked himself:

Does the mind go towards the apparent object
or does the apparent object comes to the mind?

And the mountain replied:

Neither does the mind go to the apparent object,
nor does the apparent object comes to the mind.

MU

Mumonkan: Go

Can you cross the No-gate to the No-mind?

Shingon: Mikkyo

Hui Neng asked to Kukai:

- Are the eight One and the same?

Kukai replied:

- One is the eight.

Pyramid: Who?

The Sphinx asked Hui Neng:

- Who built the pyramid?

Hui Neng replied:

- The Pyramid built Egypt.

Rock your mind

What is your mind´s age?

Chittamatra: Quantum Mechanics

Without

Within

Does the moon exist because
a mouse looks at it?

Chan: Noyesmaybe

No

Yes

Maybe

NoYesMaybe

Is the universe infinite?

Sosan: satori

There was a practitioner who approached Sosan, the third patriarch.

Sosan told him:

"Close your eyes and come backwards"

The practitioner suddenly reached Satori.

His eye opened.

He went away walking backwards.

Sosan told him:

"Now you can show others the art of reversal."

That practitioner would later become the fourth patriarch.

Satori: Living Zen and dragon

If YOU reach satori,
that is not satori.

Who reaches satori?

Fudoshin: Taia

If you can cut the odour of your thoughts,
your Mind becomes Taia.

¿Can you smell them with your ears?

JOSHU: The mirror

Look at the mirror,
and see your real face.

If you see something,
you did not get it.

If do not see anything,
you did not get it.

Stop thinking,
and just look.

Stop feeling,
and look again.

Do not stop thinking,
and just look.

Do not stop feeling,
and look again.

My friend,
look without looking.

Then you will SEE,
that which can not be seen.

Mu: Joshu

Yes.

No.

Yes and No.

Neither Yes nor No.

¿What did you ask me?

Koan: Dropping Zen

Drop all your convictions,my friend, and tell me:

¿What is left?