Cosmological koans

The koan universe is not normative or prescriptive

Since all of the stories you tell about life, even ones about enlightenment, are just stories, there is no doctrine, just method, which is judged by effectiveness and, perhaps, by beauty

Koans are self-paradoxical riddles used as a meditation discipline in Zen Buddhism

The point of the koan is to exhaust the analytic and egoic mind in order to reveal the more intuitive no-mind

They are not about arriving at an answer, but to see for ourselves that our intellections can never provide us with a completely satisfying answer

A playful and enlightening book, Cosmological Koans explores the strange hinterland between the deep structure of the physical world and our personal experience of it, giving readers what Einstein himself called “the most beautiful and deepest experience” anyone can have: a sense of the mysterious

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