#gateless barrier

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The Koan of Baso's Very Mind

The Koan of Baso’s Very Mind

“If we explain the word ‘Buddha’ we must rinse our mouths for three days afterwards.” – Wumen Huikai Baso’s Very Mind is the 30th case or koan in the Mumonkan, The Gateless Barrier, a collection of koans compiled in the 13th century by Rinzai master Wumen Huikai (known as Mumon Ekai in Japan). The 48 koans in the collection are all sourced from well-known scenes and moments through the history…

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Koans! The Dog Koan(podcast)

Koans! The Dog Koan(podcast)

Daniel and Alicia talk about Zhaozhou’s Dog.

I invited my soon-to-be wife Alicia Marley onto the podcast to talk about the first koan from The Gateless Barrier collection. She has no knowledge of zen koans, so I was wondering if her beginners perspective would help make things clear.

In this episode we talk about the title “The Gateless Barrier” (sometimes called The Gateless Gate, sometimes…

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You describe it in vain, you picture it to no avail, Praising it is useless, cease to worry about it at all. It is your true self, it has nowhere to hide, Even if the universe is annihilated, it is not destroyed.

Wumen Huikai, 無門関, "The Gateless Barrier"

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Ein Mensch, den philosophische Verwirrung gefangenhält, ist wie ein Mann in einem Zimmer, der hinaus will, aber nicht weiss wie. Er versucht's mit dem Fenster, aber das ist zu hoch. Er versucht's mit dem Kamin, aber der ist zu eng. Und wenn er sich nur umdrehen wollte, sähe er, dass die Tür die ganze Zeit offen war!

Ludwig Wittgenstein

in Norman Malcolm: Ludwig Wittgenstein. Ein Erinnerungsbuch