Unlocking the Enigma of a Zen Koan… With Sex.

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First, there were mountains and rivers.
Then, the mountains were not mountains and the rivers were not rivers anymore.
Now, the mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers again.

— Zen Master Qingyuan Weixin

Funnily enough, it’s the way my sex life panned out that helped me finally figure out what Weixin meant by his Koan.