In the Zen tradition, teachers make use of koans, which are questions that have no answers—at least according to fixed mind and dualistic thinking. Perhaps the most famous Zen koan is “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” This may sound like a highly esoteric practice, but if we are tuned in to the way things really are in this world—free from imputed meaning and impossible to pin down—we will notice that life continually presents us with koans.
