The Buddhists have a question that annoys me, 'Am I conscious right now'?
Well depending on whos asking they are. But for those who are opposed to God even existing and just want to repeat themselves over and over as to insult a christian, then in that case they are not good questions because those people hate God so much that they already gotten the answers but don't want an answer really. Just want to be trolls online.
,then you'll contemplate that paradox and perhaps arrive at an actual answer to tell your Zen master.
Could be, Paul. But, among some Zen Buddhists, the object in contemplating the koan is to help in reaching some kind discernible identification of various cognitive entities, such as the nature of 1 as compared to 2.
So, for instance, if I ask you, "Young Grasshopper, what is the sound of one hand clapping?"
But, somehow, I don't think that would go over too well.
It sounds like the question from the old Kung Fu series. If a tree falls in the forest without ears to hear it, does it make a sound? The answer is, yes, but who cares?....I always thought that if I were to be asked that koan, I'd slap the person who asked it on the cheek and then say, "...it sounds something like that!"
