Category: Koans
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A Christian Koan for Christmas Eve
From my Facebook page, three years ago, today. My writing is uneven in quality. But the Muse was with me below. ………………………….. Man is godlike and therefore proud. He becomes even more godlike when he humbles himself. The central thought of Christianity, true or not, is one so repellent to the natural human pride…
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If God Created the World, Who Created the Creator? A Good Koan?
Thomas Merton, Journals, vol. 5, p. 183, entry of 25 December 1964: St Maximus [the Confessor] says that he who "has sanctified his senses by looking with purity at all things" becomes like God. This is, I think, what the Zen masters tried to do. A letter from John Wu spoke of running into [D.…