Koan
The open hand
A teacher held up a closed fist to a miserly man's wife. "If my hand were always like this, what would you call it?" "Deformed." He opened it flat. "And if it were always like this?" "Also deformed."
Traditional story of Mokusen
How to sit with it
Neither always holding nor always giving away. Where do you need balance?
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.
