Koan
The stone mind
A teacher pointed to a stone and asked a visitor, "Is that stone inside your mind or outside it?" "Everything is in the mind," said the visitor. "Your head must feel very heavy," said the teacher, "carrying a stone like that around."
Traditional story of Hogen
How to sit with it
Which idea are you carrying around today that you could put down?
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.
