4 The koan is the principal form of meditation practiced by the Rinzai sect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on 'Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites'] Reference

Subtly implied in this Zen "koan" (perhaps through the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites] Reference

"koan," a type of story, about a young woman who seems to lead two separate existences at the same time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

A koan says you have to trust that poetic quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurie Nadel: Bernie Madoff and the Zen Master] Reference

It was like a zen koan, hard to wrap her mind around.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marguerite in Idaho] Reference

Thanks for the "What you do is not who you are" koan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stumblin'] Reference

In some sense our life is like a koan --- a Zen puzzle.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Nichtern: Becoming a 'Poet of Uncertainty'] Reference

There's a koan to be written about it, that's for sure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gretchen Rubin: Balanced Life: Buddhism Has 8 Auspicious Symbols. What Are Yours?] Reference

Immediate as a heartbreak, mind-stopping as a zen koan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waldo Jaquith - The book meme.] Reference

This year, I meditated on my favorite Zen koan, "Maybe".    From Wordnik.com.  [Best of 2009: Learning Experience] Reference

You might try to do it as a koan, in one shortish sentence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth, In Twelve Words Or Less | Her Bad Mother] Reference

OK, this is closer to a haiku than a koan, but here you go.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth, In Twelve Words Or Less | Her Bad Mother] Reference

Q: What is a koan and how can it help us get through a crisis?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurie Nadel: Bernie Madoff and the Zen Master] Reference

It's practically a Zen koan, not that I know what a Zen koan is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nora Ephron: Off the Meds] Reference

It is travel without movement, a Zen koan with a seafood buffet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

I would have written koan, but that is more obscure than thingy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHOOSE YOUR BOOZE • by Jon Peck] Reference

There's a koan in here somewhere. posted by redbarren at 5: 04 PM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-07-01] Reference

I rang a silent bell beneath a shower of pearls What a great koan!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The WELL: China Cat Sunflower] Reference

There is a lovely Zen koan: "Death can come at any time – relax.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Impermanence as a Resource for Building Healthy Relationships] Reference

What was your original face before your parents met? asks a Zen koan.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Horden: The Sacred Art of Living and Dying] Reference

Yet, you inspired me to google the term … and I wrote my first koan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth, In Twelve Words Or Less | Her Bad Mother] Reference

The koan that Frankston told me that led me to enlightenment was this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: August 4, 2002 - August 10, 2002 Archives] Reference

"Ask not what your country can do for you," a kind of political Zen koan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Era Of Good Speaking] Reference

He directs The Pacific Zen Institute, devoted to koan study and the arts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shambhala SunSpace » John Tarrant – Escape Arts in Delusionville] Reference

Practitioners often focus on apparently nonsensical questions called koan.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dictionary Of The Divine] Reference

It is in reference to an old Buddhist koan which goes something like this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tigers & Strawberries » Introduction] Reference

Here's a koan for you: does food have taste when you just eat it, mindlessly?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Open Your Mind Before You Open Your Mouth] Reference

As with any good koan, the issue is anything but airy philosophical speculation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites] Reference

So I ask a simpe Zen koan: if a politician doesn\'t take a bribe, does anyone notice? '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Zen of Politics] Reference

We demand the best for our children, whatever that is ... and therein lies the Zen koan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Baby Experts] Reference

Verwandlung as the narration of the archetypal struggle with a koan, the koan of identity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites] Reference

I feel like I should mail back my diploma since I have no idea what in the world a koan is.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth, In Twelve Words Or Less | Her Bad Mother] Reference

Zen koan for the day: how can you boycott something by continuing to spend your money there?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Council Approves Arizona Boycott « PubliCola] Reference

Which is better than the koan offered by a teammate: "The goal of Switzerland has reached carom.".    From Wordnik.com.  [In Praise Of Google Translate] Reference

He has cracked wide open the very koan whose solution eludes the parched persona in "Die Quelle.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites] Reference

Her Buddhist koan-like response was profound in its simplicity: 'Because Chinese food tastes good.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book Review: Fortune Cookie Chronicles] Reference

Asked why he'd published such a thing, Krassner made the setup of a dirty joke into a Zen koan: "To separate the men from the boys.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Over The Edge] Reference

He asked me a tearful question in our first meeting that sounded like a Zen koan: "How do you start over when you can't start over?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Douglas LaBier: Our So-Called "Midlife" -- Why Happiness and Depression Both Appear to Increase] Reference