cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 day agoWhat are your favorite or known Zen koans?message-squaremessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up126arrow-down1message-squareWhat are your favorite or known Zen koans?cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square14linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-21 day agoI made one myself in my native Dutch language. The word for ‘rope’ is ‘tauw’, which is pronounced like Tao. ‘ik kan er geen Tauw aan vastknopen’ literally means ‘i can’t tie a knot to it’ but means ‘i don’t understand a thing about it’. So: ’ Ik kan er geen Tao aan vastknopen’ is kind of a loan.
minus-squarecheese_greater@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 day agoThere’s nothwhere on which to grasp it
I made one myself in my native Dutch language.
The word for ‘rope’ is ‘tauw’, which is pronounced like Tao.
‘ik kan er geen Tauw aan vastknopen’ literally means ‘i can’t tie a knot to it’ but means ‘i don’t understand a thing about it’.
So: ’ Ik kan er geen Tao aan vastknopen’ is kind of a loan.
There’s nothwhere on which to grasp it