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Welcome to Koan Summer

  • Jun 12, 2025
  • 1 min read

The mind of koan is not about solving a riddle or passing a test. Koan mind, intimate and grounded, is a way to meet a life that is often scary and confounding. Working a phrase or a story with vulnerability and curiosity, we invite the “aha” where something is put to rest and something else is revealed.


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The koan of Mu is the first classic exchange in the tradition. It may sound a little stale until we feel this monk’s desperation: “Does a dog like me have Buddha nature?” Like us, the student is full

 
 

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