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- Kirigami Koans mentioning Subhuti, Tanzan, and Tetsugen List of koans by Yunmen Wenyan Mu-koan Original face Wild fox koan Other Hacker koans, humorous...
- practice. Five of the koans in the work concern the sayings and doings of Zhaozhou; four concern Ummon. The common theme of the koans of the Wumen Guan and...
- Look up koan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A kōan is a type of text or utterance in Zen Buddhism. Koan may also refer to: Kōan (Kamakura period)...
- Emperor Kōan (孝安天皇, Kōan-tennō), also known as Yamatotarashihikokunioshihito no Mikoto (大倭帯日子国押人命) was the sixth legendary emperor of ****an, according...
- zazen is usually combined with the study of koans. The ****anese Sōtō school makes less or no use of koans, preferring an approach known as shikantaza...
- tools (SSEYO Koan Pro and SSEYO Koan X), a set of stand-alone Koan Music players (SSEYO Koan Plus, SSEYO Koan File Player and SSEYO Koan Album Player)...
- tremendous expansion of hackerdom, the File (and related materials like the AI Koans in Appendix A) came to be seen as a sort of sacred epic, a hacker-culture...
- critiqued the practice of using koans for meditation. According to Haskel, Bankei called kōans "old wastepaper" and saw the kōan method as hopelessly contrived...
- several koans: 4 koans in The Gateless Gate (#14, #19, #27, #34), 6 koans in the Blue Cliff Record (#28, #31, #40, #63, #64, #69), and 3 koans in The Book...
- developed its own formalized style of kōan introspection and training. This includes a standardized curriculum of kōans, which must be studied and "p****ed"...