Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Zen kōans: Unsolvable enigmas designed to break your brain - Puqun Li" video.

  1. This video needed a lot more research. The Zen school of Buddhism doesn't seek to disregard reality in such a manner, it seeks to reset the brain so that you can see what is truly there the way that a baby would, but with the accumulated wisdom of a great sage. Additionally, the point of koans isn't really to learn anything from them so much as they're intended to be used to force the brain into a position where it gives up trying to attach to the things you've wrongly learned. When you get it, the brain releases and you have the chance to see things as they are, not as you think they are. This is why the koans seem to be so nonsensical, internally inconsistent and confusing. The point of them is to fill you're entire waking thoughts with them until a solution reveals itself.
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  2. If that's your response, then you don't understand.
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