Zen Flesh Zen Bones

This section deals with the book of koans ‘Zen Flesh Zen Bones‘. It’s probably worth it to have a copy to reference if you’re interested. Those which I feel are self-evident haven’t been included.

6. People will desire you to desire. They killed Socrates for less.

7. Tanzan went all in on unbeing.

8. The wandering monk, unattached, gives unweighed observations.

9. If the thief’s desire were a curse, why would Ryokan desire to gift him the moon?

12. Significance is silence and actualization is movent.

13 and 14. Tanzan solves the world’s problems.

18. How to die.

19. Kosen created his mistakes through his sense of social pressure.

20. Jiun indulged in adoration of his knowledge, which was not even his, so his mother observed.

Forgive an author’s interjection but listen! I feel at home among the koans.

25. Suiwo had been hearing the sound of one hand this whole time. The day before his suicide he detached from everything else and so was able to realize it.

26. He who remains in silent mind may stay.
Perceptions are always funny in conflict.

27. That blind man heard sincerity in Bankai, which was rare enough to report.

28. Ask your treasure house about treasure.

28. Daiju’s treasure is in the experience of pursuit.