1) Aid to Zen meditation 2) Meditation focus, at times 3) Meditation question 4) Paradoxical riddle 5) Problem 6) Riddle for a student of Zen 7) Riddle with no solution 8) Spiritual question 9) Zen paradox 10) Zen puzzle 11) Zen puzzler 12) Zen question 13) Zen riddle
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A story, dialog, question, or statement in the history and lore of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, generally containing aspects that are inaccessible to rational understanding, yet that may be accessible to Intuition. Koans are often used by Zen practitioners as objects of meditation to induce an experience of enlightenment or realization, and by Zen teachers...
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[company] KOAN is an Italian company (also known as Koan Software) originally oriented in software for industrial automation since its founding in 1996, and subsequently specialized in embedded software. Currently it is mostly focusing on Embedded Linux distribution KaeilOS, Linux device driver development, embedded software consulting and ...
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This category comprises articles pertaining to the 1953 National Football League season. ...
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[program] Koan was actually an architecture named the SSEYO Koan Interactive Audio Platform (SKIAP). This consisted of the core Koan generative music engine (the SSEYO Koan Generative Music Engine (SKME), a set of authoring tools (SSEYO Koan Pro and SSEYO Koan X), a set of stand-alone Koan Music player (SSEYO Koan Plus, SSEYO Koan File Play...
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nonsensical question given to Buddhist students for contemplation
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in Zen Buddhism of Japan, a succinct paradoxical statement or question used as a meditation discipline for novices, particularly in the Rinzai sect. ... [2 related articles]
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(=kung an Ch.) 'public document' or 'standard'; a formulation or story pertaining to the ultimate truth; cannot be solved by logic
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In Zen Buddhism, a superficially nonsensical question or riddle used by a Zen master to help a pupil achieve satori (enlightenment). It is used in the Rinzai school of
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A Buddhist riddle designed to foster spiritual growth, posed by a monastic leader to junior monks. An example includes
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noun a paradoxical anecdote or a riddle that has no solution; used in Zen Buddhism to show the inadequacy of logical reasoning
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In Zen Buddhism, a superficially nonsensical question or riddle used by a Zen master to help a pupil achieve satori (enlightenment). It is used in the Rinzai school of Zen. A
koan supposedly cannot be understood through the processes of logic; its solution requires attainment of a higher level of insight. An often repeated ex...
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a nonsensical or paradoxical question to a student for which an answer is demanded, the stress of meditation on the question often being illuminating. Cf. mondo.
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[Difficult words] a paradoxical anecdote or a riddle that has no solution
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[Obscure words] a paradoxical anecdote or a riddle that has no solution
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