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Jun 21, 2024 · Zen koans are enigmatic riddles or paradoxical statements used in Zen Buddhism to provoke deep contemplation and insight. These ancient teachings are designed to challenge the intellect and push individuals beyond conventional modes of thinking.
Jun 13, 2024 · I learned to study Koans from a zen teacher who was later deposed from the sangha for sexual and spiritual abuse. He passed many peoples koans…and he had a fiery and interesting way of speaking on dharma that drew many people to him.
Jun 12, 2024 · Yasutani’s immediate successor as Abbot of the Sanbo Kyodan school was Yamada Koun, who may be credited in large part with the substantial success the school achieved internationally during the Zen boom of the 1960s and ’70s.
Jun 18, 2024 · As the Japanese expression "that sounds like a Zen dialogue（禅問答）," which refers to telling something very illogical and unintelligible, suggests, a Koan is used in special kinds of dialogue that cannot be grasped through intellectual judgment alone.
3 days ago · Clickbait or Koan. Last month, I had a post about a type of theory that is, in a certain sense, “immune to gravity”. These theories don’t allow you to build antigravity machines, and they aren’t totally independent of the overall structure of space-time. But they do ignore the core thing most people think of as gravity, the curvature of ...
3 days ago · Zen (Japanese; [note 1] from Chinese "Chán"; in Korean: Sŏn, and Vietnamese: Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as the Chan School (禪宗, chánzōng, "meditation school") or the Buddha-mind school (佛心宗, fóxīnzōng ), [1] and later developed into various sub-schools and branches.
4 days ago · When The Sound of the One Hand came out in Japan in 1916 it caused a scandal. Zen was a secretive practice, its wisdom relayed from master to novice in strictest privacy. That a handbook existed recording not only the riddling koans that are central to Zen teaching but also detailing the answers to them seemed to mark Zen as rote, not revelatory.
