koan

How To Use koan In A Sentence

• Nippostrongylus kendo kyu nisei kesa-gatame kyudo No keyaki linked verse nogaku kiaki mai noh kibei maiko nori kiku makimono norimon Kikuchi mama-san norito kikumon mamushi noshi kikyo mana notan ki-mon matsu nunchakus kimono matsuri oban kimono sleeve matsuyama, adj. obang kin mebos obe kiri medaka obi kirigami Meiji odori kirimon menuki ofuro kirin metake o-goshi koan miai oiran mikado ojime sub mikan Okayama, adj. kobang Mikimoto Okazaki kobe, adj. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1
• Zen schools are more or less divisible into those that emphasize a curriculum of verbal meditation objects - like koans - and those that do not.
• From Zen koans to aural meditation, bobsledding to journaling, rolfing to silence to building a tree house, the many reality escapes are described in a fun, playful, familiar manner.
• In Ch'an (Zen) meditation, the practitioner is taught to concentrate on a koan. The specific practice is the silent recitation of the koan.
• Finally, South African foreign minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane called a huddle of the major players in a last-gasp effort to find compromise language. News
• Zen masters often use nonsensical or unsolvable riddles, or koans, to bring about enlightenment.
• A Zen koan: A hermit's cabin burns down in the woods; does anyone hear but the trees? FOLLY
• Brand published his chameleon koan in his Whole Earth Catalog, in 1974.
• D.T. Suzuki used the word "enlightenment" to translate the Japanese term satori¸ and his recounting of the enlightenment stories from the Zen koan literature made quite a splash among intellectual elites at the time. Lewis Richmond: A Cultural History Of The Word 'Enlightenment'
• While mastering the traditional koans such as the sound of one hand clapping, Kelly integrated yoga into the practice, pioneered what he called "emotional koans," and championed an ecological vision. Craig K. Comstock: The Making of a Teacher