How do you get out of a stone grave which is locked on the outside?
Saturday, December 6, 2025
A Stone Grave #1
Koan:
How do you get out of a stone grave which is locked on the outside?
At first it seemed like a situation I would probably never encounter—and then realizing now, in retrospect, it is my life, being in this body and world that I have so little power over. Though I can think of death as inevitable... I could flip that and consider life—really tasting life—as a possibility.
How do you get out of a stone grave which is locked on the outside?
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