Zen Buddhism, with its discipline of meditation and its perplexing koan riddles, seems powerfully enlightening.
Because our circumstances are different, we are used they approached police, accustomed to see koan novel.
"Swallowing a Ball of Hot Iron" examines a means of teaching embodied in the koan method of Zen Buddhism.
Yes... this sounds like a koan because it is, and like a true Zen puzzle, contemplating the riddle will free you from the shackles of your mind.
The Rinzai (Chinese: Lin-chi) sect, introduced to Japan from China by the priest Ensai in 1191, emphasizes sudden shock and meditation on the paradoxical statements called koan.
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