Cracking the Koan

It strikes me that life itself is the Great Koan and we are here precisely to crack it--to break the code, as it were. (Something of this was brought up in Rex Spear's recent posts, and I'm glad for it).

Earth experience in the space-time dimension is in fact koan-like (a life-koan), and we have to live it and carry out the practice of it under the auspices of duality and its contradictory opposites. We live into the contradiction, the paradoxes we experiences, the opposites, and the questions until, through living and learning, struggle and search, we are able to somehow break the code, or "crack the koan."

Such a breakthrough does not happen through the logical or rational mind, nor does it become through conventional religious language, analysis or terminology (theology--where there always only more paradox), but through insight into the mysteries of existence which is a transcendent understanding that supercedes space and time at the kardial level. That breakthrough leads to wonder and awe, reigning and rest (as Yeshua says in Gospel of Thomas, Logion 2).

Once we crack the code, we are then able to leave this dimension--which has been our purpose for being here all along. Perhaps we were sent here (into space and time) exactly so that we might have "koanic experience."