Joe, It IS a koan!
Edgar On Oct 24, 2012, at 5:30 PM, Joe wrote: > Edgar, > > That's not yet a koan. > > Do you reject the Challenge/Opportunity? > > I'd like the koan AS a koan. > > Surely I can work on personal koans. > > But in order to understand your suggestion of a certain matter being a koan, > however, I need YOUR koan as you would phrase it as a koan. ...and ...in your > words, taking the koan-form as in MUMONKAN, BLUE CLIFF RECORD, BOOK OF > SERENTITY, TRANSMISSION OF THE LAMP, THE NAN-TOU KOANS, or THE WARRIOR KOANS. > > The format is pretty standard everywhere; glowing models abound. > > Your entry will give all here the chance to understand what you have in mind. > > Has the book-writing exhausted the creativity/expressiveness?: well, there's > no sign of that here! (your posts are great). Will you come through for us? > > Future reading of said book is future-reading, and to be looked-forward to: > The koan is in question here NOW, so please let us have the koan. > > In hopes, > > and with encouragement!, > > --Joe > > > Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote: > > > > Joe, the koan you need to understand is the nature of reality, of the world > > of forms. > >
