Who really knows? (from the Hindu (I think) Rig Veda) A Zen koan is an unanswerable question posed to Zen initiates to force thinking about an impossible answer. Not truly unanswerable, this one has multiple answers to a finite number of questions. Which one reveals the truth? Who? What? How? When? And the timeless Why? It depends on ones frame of reference. The question is universal but the answers are specific.
Each answers the same question in a different way. Only one can reveal the truth uniquely. No matter how one answers the question the others still remain. In quantum mechanics one would say the wave function has collapsed. An interesting cross over of quantum mechanics and consciousness.
Or not. This is, after all, the 560th post to this blog.
A Zen koan is proof that we're all on this flight together.
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