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#24: ZEN KOANS | The Riddles that Stupefy the Mind and Evoke Enlightenment

The Jason Gregory Podcast

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The Development of the Zen Practitioner

When you are given coan, if your mind is in the habit of picking it up and trying to figure it out intellectually, you're still at a very low level of understanding. So the development of going through the ncoans is not that habit of pickingIt up, but that's, that's, i a transformation of the mind. See, that's a mind that's residing more in the essential world. The coen is to facilitate the essential worlds. That's it's to understand that world. And there's not an intellectual understanding, as as you know, we'll go through some of these coens. But yet, that's something for people to think about,

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