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2010 January 8 | 1 Comment »
By Matt
“When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.”
Sometimes there’s deep truth in simple statements.
In Buddhism, particularly the famous Zen school, they’re fond of using koans like this to deliver powerful meaning. Koans are short stories, usually no more than a few short sentences, that always confuse Westerners because we’re brought up to be very literal-minded. You can’t look at a koan and try to interpret it literally. At least not if you expect to take any meaning from it.
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