Koans for Kidz

Written on a whiteboard.

August 2026

∞ "OPEN FOR BUSINESS" ∞

"The door opens both ways"

"The soup was made for whoever comes"

"Hunger prays without being taught"

"Life is the only teacher Death is the only reason to learn"

"life means more, than heaven could ever mean"

"The personality of Buddha was sacrificed by the universe"

"The dust shows the light"

"The more why, The more Because"

"what don't you, because god?"

"This."

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IS ♡ ♡ IS

"Sit by the water that is also fishing"

"love has no borders"

"The well was dug before the village"

"The seed is not late"

"The name came later Who was early?"

"The ear finds the room before the eye"

"Nobody taught the river and it arrives"

"The door is left unlocked for someone with a key"

"The dog knows you without the name"

"Nothing, asks to be understood"

"The lamp is refilled by whoever finds it low"

"The rain falls the same on both kinds"

"REFUSE TO SHARE REFUSE TO GROW"

"The gate was not locked after the theft"

"The clothes are folded and put away"

"The hand knows the door in the dark"

"Who wakes the one who wakes you?"

"there is no paradise, in the mirror"

"The well does not come to you"

"Distance, is not the same as away"

"The good teacher leaves the room"

"Nobody sees the root"

"The instruction was complete on the first day"

"Look longer"

"Water takes the shape and answers to none of them"

"The wind moves the tree the tree shows the wind"

"The door has no lock it has been tried many times"

"Come anyway"

"The lesson you skip waits at the next door"

"The eye adjusts the dark does not"

"Nobody finishes and nobody is behind"

"Enough."

"The dream had someone in it Who stayed behind?"

"Every language has a word for the same silence"

"The bird does not practise and the song is finished"

"The ring wears thin from the inside"

"The wound teaches the scar remembers"

"The breath was already praying"

"The last breath is not different from the others"

"Nothing is missing here that heaven adds"

"The shadow never asked to be shaped like you"

"The floor is swept because it is evening"

"The cushion wears out that is the teaching"

"Sit with it"

"Empty is not nothing it is room"

"The church is empty and still warm"

"The road is made by people who did not arrive"

"The dream does not ask to be remembered"

"to each a Koan, a backward dance"

"The hymn does not need the singer to believe it"

"Time heals nothing it only walks further"

"Love outlasts the reason it was given"

"Who is left when nobody calls?"

"The prayer ended the listening did not"

"amen means so be it, so be what?"

"Nobody rehearses and everyone manages it"

"It is later than it was"

"Winter takes the leaves the tree keeps standing"

"Still."

"The empty hand is the one that can be held"

"The path is cleared before anyone is coming"

"Approach is the art of Solution"

"The body slows the noticing does not"

"The clock keeps the hour and loses the day"

"Love does not arrive it is noticed late"

"Good things are true enough"

"Nothing was fixed and the day was good"

"The mountain will not miss you Go down"

"Softer"

"The photograph stayed still Who moved?"

"Nothing never happened"

"The sea does not keep the shape of ships"

"Death takes the name and leaves the rest"

"The prayer was said into no particular sky"

"Justice, remains to be seen"

"Silence is not agreement and not refusal"

"You cannot get there you can only stop leaving"

"Nowhere to be"

"Salt kept the taste and let go of the sea"

"The river doesn't remember being water"

"Cast once"

"Nothing takes no time at all"

"did you come or were you here"

"are you going when you came"

"Truth, wears away at religion"

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