Kōan (Flag)

A kōan (/ˈkoʊæn, -ɑːn/ KOH-a(h)n; Japanese: 公案; Chinese: 公案; pinyin: gōng'àn [kʊ́ŋ ân]; Korean: 화두; Vietnamese: công án) is a story, dialogue, question, or other memetic device that is used to induce FLAG Madness.. The main goal of kōan practice is to achieve kenshō ("seeing one's true nature").

The original kōan found in Volume I of the Vexilloramanomicon are:

• “As an unknown famous signifier once said, ‘As a famous signifier, me, once said: I am, therefore I am.’”
• “Our automaton engages in a metadialogue about its own structure.”
• “There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.”
• “You think existence exists?”
• “The flag is a burden, but it is also freedom.”
• “To be born is to be flagless. Life is about seeking out the flags to cure original flaglessness.”
• “Those who bear the flag lead others to enlightenment. The flags mark the way to heaven.”
• " Is enlightenment the inherent nature of Flags, or do the Flags mark the path to enlightenment? The answer is "yes""
• “Fate perches on top of a flagpole.”
• “You think it is you who moves the flag, but it is the flag who moves you.”
• “Flags appear to be the same size at any distance.”
• “The usual hoax: fiction presented as fact. The hoax presented here opposite of that: fact presented as fiction.”
• “Only by forgetting what ‘flag’ means can you remember its true meaning.”
• “Theorem: Flags are the greatest concept of all time. Proof: Flags are the only concept.”
• “Flag! The fortelling signifiers scream, glory to the unseen Gem.”
• “Flags be. Flags is. Flags were. Flags will. Flags do.”