The Zen of Advaita - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

Cracking the Code ofthe Zen Koan Part XWithout Transduction,Nothing Means Anything.Meanings Therefore,Deconstruct ThemselvesAlong with deconstructing outcomescomes deconstructing meanings,(see The Trap of Insight above)which is also part of theabstraction-transduction process.As mentioned earlier this “will”to organize chaos by understandingconcepts and map-making is theabstraction process ordering atits next level.Zen Koan: A monk asked Joshu whyBodhidharma came to China. Joshusaid, “An oak tree in the garden.”Here again, if everythingis everything else and isconsciousness appearing as nature,with no “I”, then there is no why,how, when, where, etc. In short,no meanings or descriptions, asthey would require a separateindependent observer/knower to118