The Paradoxes of Life

Being Zen is all about learning to live with ambiguity and paradoxes. Life is too complex to be understood using reason. The truth lies beyond words. But ...

What if we didn’t need an explanation for everything?

Zen Kōans, riddles that makes no sense, serve to help achieve a central tenet of Buddhism: letting go of binary thinking. Instead of focusing on right and wrong or black and white, kōans helped monks avoid clinging to answers or outcomes—because they lack them.

Desire creates pain in our lives.

But living a life void of desire is equally, if not more, painful.