Below is a list of modern Koans, or inquiry questions, arranged under the supervision of the webmaster.
A.
A-1 “In seeing, there is only the seeing.”
A-2 “In hearing, there is only the hearing”
A-3 “In smelling, there is only the smelling”
A-4 “In touching, there is only the touching”
A-5 “In thinking, there is only the thinking”
B.
B-1 Show me your true nature
B-2 How high (heavy) is it?
B-3 How does it look like?
B-4 How does it move?
B-5 Where did it come from?
B-6 Where will it go after death?
B-7 When was it born?
B-8 When will it perish?
B-9 H0w do you use it?
B-10 What is its source?
C.
C-1 Is this a hand, or not a hand?
C-2 When you don’t call it a hand, what is it?
C-3 Whose hand is it?
C-4 (Clapping hands) What is this?
C-5 Where does this sound come from?
C-6 Is it right hand touching left, or left touching right?
C-7 Is it one hand or two hands?
C-8 What is the sound of one hand clapping?
C-9 What do you plan to do with that sound?
C-10 What is the source of one hand clapping?
D.
D-1 How do you go straight on a winding road?
D-2 How do you swim in the river without getting wet?
D-3 How do you sweep the floor without a broom?
D-4 How do you drive a car high up in the sky?
D-5 How do you save a man about to fall from a cliff?
D-6 How do you get me up without touching me?
D-7 How do you get a man out of the pitfall without using a ladder?
D-8 How do you get to a place where there is no heat in the summer?
D-9 How do you greet the Buddha, here, in this moment?
D-10 What is it like when the mountain moves and the river water is unmoving?
E.
E-1 “Think of neither good nor evil”
E-2 “Think of the unthinkable”
E-3 “Thoughts flow on without stopping”
E-4 “Ordinary mind is the way”
E-5 “Desire equals Enlightenment”
E-6 “Dropping off body and mind”
E-7 “Body and mind dropped off”
E-8 “To know yourself, just avoid picking and choosing”
E-9 “Mind changes its shape; how it changes is profound”
E-10 “Put your mind in a bowl and bring it to me”
F.
F-1 “When Bob drinks wine, Mike gets boozed”
F-2 “The earth is as big as a grain of rice”
F-3 “The world is not world; it’s called the world”
F-4 “Traveling around heaven, hell, and earth”
F-5 “Throughout heaven, hell, and earth, only I am”
F-6 “You can’t grasp your mind of the past“
F-7 “You can’t grasp your mind of the present moment”
F-8 “You can’t grasp your mind of the future”
F-9 “Which of the three minds do you apply to eat lunch?”
F-10 “There is no truth anywhere in the universe. Where would you go?”
G.
G-1 Form is emptiness
G-2 Emptiness is form
G-3 The world is like a dream, an illusion, a bubble, or a shadow
G-4 Show me the emptiness of dishwashing chore
G-5 How old is an empty man?
G-6 How does an emptiness taste?
G-7 How do you paint emptiness on an empty canvas?
G-8 How do you make scrambled egg out of emptiness?
G-9 How do you split emptiness into two?
G-10 If things are empty in their nature, what’s the point of making a living?
H.
H-1 “There is no person within the law of causation”
H-2 “The enlightened man is not subject to the law of causation”
H-3 “The enlightened man is with the law of causation”
H-4 “You are despised by those in this world; sins in your previous life will be extinguished”
H-5 “Every day is a good day”
I. Five Modes
I-1 Emptiness
I-2 Form
I-3 Source of Emptiness and Form
I-4 Both Empty and Formed
I-5 Neither Empty nor Formed