Examples of using Koan in English and their translations into Hungarian
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when reading The Three Pillars of Zen by Philip Kapleau, I began working with the koan“ Who…?”.
of advice given by various masters on how to deal with the koan.
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A koan is a question that has no rational solution,
generally he gives a koan only after the practicer has reached a certain depth;
in fact it could even been used as a Koan for meditation!
but all the time the koan was worrying at the back of my mind.
in a special interview, he gave me the koan Sekishu,“the sound of one hand.”.
if after three days you have still not solved the koan, then you must die.".
Because Kennin-ji belongs to the Rinzai Sect, we can suppose that Master Dogen also received a Koan from the Master, and that he also considered the meaning of the Koan during Zazen as a method to get Enlightenment.
But this is not necessarily so, either.(It may happen that a practicer never gets a koan, while at other times s/he gets one very early;
in the material sense, is at least as contradictory as a koan(a meditative paradoxical saying, or parable, in Zen Buddhism).
encouraging him to reciprocate in equally eccentric fashion: the koan technique is designed to bring out just that side of the person which the social code condemns“the unexpected man.”.
Zen koans and Bible quotes.
Koans for learning new programming languages.
Koans don't really explain things.
How to practice Zen Koans.
For example, in the cultivation of the“don't know mind”, or in working with koans.
According to tradition, in our lineage only the Roshi may give koans, and he is the one who checks the intuitive answers in personal interviews, or sanzens.
compelling as Zen koans.