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a question with no answer, designed to break the part of you that wants one.
means a paradoxical question or story used in zen buddhism to exhaust logical thinking until insight arrives some other way.
from from japanese koan, borrowed from chinese gongan meaning public case, originally a legal precedent — zen repurposed it as a mental precedent that refuses to resolve.
most famous onewhat is the sound of one hand clapping
purposenot to answer, but to exhaust the answering mind
teacher rolemasters judge response, not correctness
collections existgateless gate has 48 classic koans