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My Discovery of a New Psychology Part 2
Mysteries of the Koans
Looking at the world around me, I saw a pattern of atoms. The sun, the moon, and the earth were part of an atom. I was standing on an atom and yet, atoms were in my body? They were all around me? What did that mean? I had many questions, and so, I had found my first koan. It took years for the koan to unfold into an understanding as it settled into a deep place in me and became a part of my soul.
Many of life’s mysteries are difficult to grasp. Not because they are intrinsically hard, but because they are simple. My brother said of the articles in “The Lion’s Roar”, “It’s not figuring out the answer. It’s living the answer.” That is the way of a koan.
Koans have a whole form of mystery that surrounds them. For me they are the embodiment of our universe, wonderful and magic filled. Here is an excerpt that might explain better than I what a koan is:
However, koans have always been with us, and always are. They arise naturally in life situations and out of the dilemmas we face. At times of crisis, as when we lose someone we love through death or separation, we can find that we are facing ultimate questions such as What is the purpose of life? In the instance of the death of a loved one, we may find ourselves…
