What is the colour of wind?

(Koan)

First reaction

Wind has no colour.

Exploration

The question 'what is' calls for a definition, it wants an object.
What is wind? What is colour?
Can a method of measuring shades of light be attributed to something we cannot see?
Wind exists but can we feel it?
Do we feel wind itself or the air and dust particles moved by wind?
What is the wider implication of the koan?
Does it serve a purpose?
Does colour matter?
Does measurement matter?
Is measurement relative and limited?
Does it have any meaning whatsoever beyond itself?
Should we try to measure everything?
Can we only understand through seeing, through measuring?


Possible meaning

Not everything can be quantified, measured, labelled and categorised.
The trend towards understanding through measurement and interpretation has its limitations.
Does measurement really denote understanding?

Classification is the process of breaking down the world into constituent parts.
Is this how we should comprehend reality?

Colour has actual real meaning at all.

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