Koan
Shoushan's staff
Shoushan held up his short staff and said, "If you call this a staff, you are caught by the name. If you do not call it a staff, you deny the fact. What will you call it?"
The Gateless Gate, case 43
How to sit with it
Look at an ordinary object without naming it. Just look.
Read it once more, slowly. Then sit for two minutes and let it stay in the background. There is nothing to solve. New to this? Read what a koan is.
