Zen & Buddhism

Wisdom of Paradox

Embracing contradictions that transcend logic and reveal deeper truth.

Zen is full of paradoxes: seeking nothing, we find everything. Grasping nothing, we hold all. In dying to the small self, we discover boundless life. These aren't logical puzzles but pointers to truth beyond conceptual mind.

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• What Zen says about doubt

  Zen keeps its contradictions rather than resolving them: seeking nothing, we find everything; grasping nothing, we hold all. Read as logic these are simply false. Zen's defence is that they are pointers rather than propositions — a claim you can only test, not accept.