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This reminds me of how (I think) Zen koans are designed to make no sense at all. They are designed to teach you the limits of words and language and pure think
by ogogmad 1mo ago
This reminds me of how (I think) Zen koans are designed to make no sense at all. They are designed to teach you the limits of words and language and pure thinking.
- rramadass 1mo ago> This reminds me of how (I think) Zen koans are designed to make no sense at all. True in a way. To understand how, note first the four stages of language given in my comment here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491764 Zen koans don't have a meaning at the manifest (Vaikhari) and differentiated (Madhyama) stages. So you are forced to go back to the Intuitive/Holistic Meaning (Pashyanti) stage and thus realize "a burst of meaning" aka "a flash of insight" aka "Satori".