3301 wisdom

instructions.txt

Command your own self.

Do four unreasonable things each day.

Program your mind. Program reality

Question all things. Discover truth inside yourself.
Follow your truth. Impose nothing on others.

You are a being unto yourself. Your are a law unto yourself.
Each intelligence is holy. For all that lives is holy.

Like the instar, tunneling to the surface
We must shed our own circumferences;
Find the divinity within and emerge.

koan1.txt

A man decided to go and study with a master.
He went to the door of the master
 
"Who are you who wishes to study here?"
asked the master.
The student told the master his name.
"That is not what you are that is only what you are called."
 
"Who are you who wishes to study here?"
he asked again.
The man thought for a moment, and replied
"I am a professor."
"That is what you do, not what you are"
replied the master.
 
"Who are you who wishes to study here?"
Confused, the man thought some more.
Finally, he answered, "I am a human being."
"That is only your species, not who you are."
 
"Who are you who wishes to study here?"
asked the master again.
After a moment of thought, the professor replied 
"I am a consciousness inhabiting an arbitrary body."
"That is merely what you are not who you are"
 
"Who are you who wishes to study here?"
The man was getting irritated. "I am," he started, 
but he could not think of anything else to say,
so he trailed off.
After a long pause the master replied
"then you are welcome to come study."

koan2.txt

During a lesson the master explained the I
"The I is the voice of the circumference"
he said.
 
When asked by a student to explain what that meant, the master said
"It is a voice inside your head".
 
"I don't have a voice in my head"
thought the student, and he raised his hand to tell the master.
 
The master stopped the student, and said
"The voice that just said you have no voice in your head, is the I"
and the students were enlightened

ut3qtzbrvs7dtvzp.txt

The loss of divinity:
the circumference practices three 
Behaviors which cause the loss of divinity.

Consumption: we consume too much because we believe the following two errors within the deception

I. We do not have enough or there is not enough
II. We have what we have now by luck, and we will not be strong enough later to obtain what we need.

Most things are not worth consuming:

Preservation: we preserve things because we believe we are weak.
If we loose them we will not be strong enough to gain them

Again. This is the deception

Most things are not worth preserving

Adherence: we follow a dogma so that we can belong and be right.
Or we follow reason so we can belong and be right.

there is nothing to be right about.
to belong is death.

it is the behaviors of consumption, preservation,
and adherence that have us lose our primality and thus our divinity:

Some wisdom: Amass great wealth.
never become attached to what you own.
Be-prepared to destroy all that you own:

Hey,
Apart from Cicada3301, does this text has any other text reference. I was wondering if it was extracted from a book.

@Smiley2507 Good question. I have not spent any time finding sources tho. Koans in zen buddhism are for sure very different from the ones here. These here deliver the point of the story with no thinking required

@henkman Ok. Guess I will have to do some research then. I am interested in the origin of the text.