EP. #20: Koans
Episode Twenty (Season 3, Episode 1)
On the Modern Buddha Podcast, available to listen to now on Spotify, Khristal explores the Paradoxial Riddles of Zen Buddhism, call Koans (pronounced KOH-ahnz), focusing on the intricacies of the riddles to produce profound realizations that induce spiritual epiphanies.
Episode Twenty (Season 3, Episode 1) covers the classical riddles that ignite deeper thought in the reader to bring about spiritual growth in a lifetime. In the Western interpretation of the meaning of a koan, it's often misunderstood as a complex, unanswerable, and often preposterous story or anecdote. Across the various traditions of Buddhism that utilize koans for expansion of consciousness, they're recognized as perplexing thoughts that engage the rational mind to explore all possible answers and possibilities to arrive at the spiritual truth of the dhatus, or components, of the riddle.
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