Given that most people seem likely to look at the koan and think “yeah, I could solve that if I thought about it for a while” and then move on without actually thinking about it, anything that actually gets people to think about it seems like a good thing.
Given that most people seem likely to look at the koan and think “yeah, I could solve that if I thought about it for a while” and then move on without actually thinking about it, anything that actually gets people to think about it seems like a good thing.
The only trouble is if people then have to unthink things, which humans are notoriously bad at :P