The Koan of Coffee

You may be wondering how to meditate by coffee. 

How can caffeine and calm, poured into the same coffee cup, create a peaceful state of mind? 

How can you meditate if you're all stressed out or jazzed on coffee? Well, it's a koan... that's the nature of Zen.

A koan is a Zen Buddhist riddle that has no easy answer; it may be totally illogical in nature and it appears to be a paradox. 

A koan is a question that must be experienced in order to be understood. 

Zen and coffee don't seem to mix. Or do they? It seems they'd be completely opposite to one another, but part of the mystery of the koan is that they are truly in harmony. 

What do you suppose the koan means? How do caffeine and calm mix together in a cup of coffee?

Ponder this for a few mindful moments before you read the next paragraph.

The paradox of meditating by coffee is that mindfully meditating is not separate from any of your experiences; it is a basic, integral part of everything in your life and can be incorporated into every thought, feeling, and experience you have, much in the same manner that caffeine and calm — which are seeming opposites — poured into the same coffee cup are a perfect blend of meditation and mindfulness.

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