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	Koan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A koan (pronounced /ko.an/) is a story, dialog, question, or statement in the history and lore of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, generally containing aspects that are inaccessible to rational understanding, yet that may be accessible to intuition.
		A famous koan is, "Two hands clap and there is a sound; what is the sound of one hand?" (oral tradition, attributed to Hakuin Ekaku, 1686-1769, considered a reviver of the koan tradition in Japan).
		Koans are said to reflect the enlightened or awakened state of such persons, and sometimes said to confound the habit of discursive thought or shock the mind into awareness.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Koan (3617 words)

	Zen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Koan practice was prevalent in the Linji school, to which Yuanwu and Ta-hui (pinyin: Dahui) belonged, but it was also employed on a more limited basis by the Caodong school.
		The 'answer' to the koan involves a transformation of perspective or consciousness, which may be either radical or subtle, possibly akin to the experience of metanoia in Christianity.
		The Zen student's mastery of a given koan is presented to the teacher in a private interview, referred to as dokusan (独参), daisan (代参), or sanzen (参禅).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zen (4615 words)

	KOAN
		KOAN emerged from a consultative process where organic practitioners agreed to come and work together to achieve the synergy required to develop the organic sub sector.
		KOAN was formed to coordinate, facilitate and provide leadership and professional services to all stakeholders in the organic agriculture industry in Kenya.
		KOAN seeks to promote the organic movement in Kenya, to evolve and become a highly beneficial and integral industry with direct impacts on environment and social economic status.
	www.koan.co.ke (194 words)

	Understanding the meaning of Zen Koans
		Koans are a method of training the mind in order to achieve the state of Satori.
		Koans are questions or riddles designed as instruments by the Zen Master to aid the student in finding the truth behind the everyday images of reality.
		The purpose of Zen Koans is to upset or dislocate the mind from these habitual ideas of reality and open the mind to the other possibilities and, eventually, to Satori or knowledge of reality.
	mtmt.essortment.com /zenkoanspiritu_rlmp.htm (1004 words)

	Zen Teachings-Koan Practice
		Koan is a Japanese word that comes from the Chinese, kung-an, that means public dictate.
		Koans are questions or statements that are like a challenge to your person, your most fundamental perception of self.
		Koans act like swords to stab at your ego and draw forth your Buddha Nature (your fully natural nature that is not dependent on your self-definition).
	www.zenproject.faithweb.com /zen_teachings/koan_practice.html (1734 words)

	Koan Corporation - Reconfigurable Computing Solutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Koan's primary function is to integrate high performance computing with traditional IT.
		Prior to Koan's RCMS One-1 software, the creation of an interface between an already existing system and a new piece of RC technology would require a significant amount of time and expense.
		Koan understands these problems, and with this understanding creates solutions that break the conventional molds of high performance computing.
	www.koancorporation.com (249 words)

	Regarding Mu
		Basically a Koan is a paradoxical utterance used in Zen as a center of concentration in meditation.
		The paradoxical nature of Koans is essential to their function: The attempt to break down conceptual thought.
		Koans are constructed so that they do not succumb to conceptual analysis and thereby require a more direct response from the meditator.
	www.angelfire.com /electronic/bodhidharma/mu.html (1680 words)

	Koan - IcehouseOrg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The most famous koan is probably, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" Sometimes, the koan is a parable, but always the meaning is elusive and, if discerned, instructive.
		Parable koans often end with the phrase, "the student was enlightened," signifying that it is necessary to truly understand the koan to understand the Buddha and achieve enlightenment.
		Most people do not believe that a koan with zero pieces ("the null koan") is a koan at all.
	icehousegames.org /wiki?title=Koan (181 words)

	AllRefer.com - koan (Buddhism) - Encyclopedia
		In the formative period of Ch'an in China, masters tested the enlightenment of their students and of each other through statements and dialogue that expressed spiritual intuition in nonrational, paradoxical language.
		In later generations records of such conversations began to be used for teaching, and the first collections of subjects, or koans, were made in the 11th cent.
		Koan practice was transmitted to Japan as part of Zen in the 13th cent., and it remains one of the main practices of the Rinzai sect.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/koan.html (255 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Koan
		A riddle in the form of a paradox used in Zen Buddhism as an aid to meditation and a means of gaining intuitive knowledge.
		To meditate on a koan is to engage in an active
		But those who may have engaged their hedonic or transegoic circuits begin to realize that it may be best to treat the world as a Zen riddle or koan, and appreciate the qualities of subtlety, irony, ambiguity, and unexpectedness that make the universe so precious.
	fusionanomaly.net /koan.html (323 words)

	Toni Packer - Can Clear Seeing be Attained without Koan Practice? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		If one is trained in koan practice one will advocate this method, and if one has had a different training one advocates that.
		Other koans, in brief, are statements, descriptions of dialogues which are incomprehensible and perplexing to our conditioned, fragmented way of thinking.
		Many koans are the very expression of a mind in which the deceptions of self-centered thinking are clearly revealed and dispelled.
	www.kwanumzen.com /primarypoint/v05n2-1988-spring-tonipacker-clearseeing.html (1131 words)

	SSEYO KOAN PRO 2.2 (MAC/WIN)
		Koan Pro will assign these files to consecutive MIDI note numbers, which can then be used in a Fixed Pattern or other type of Voice.
		Koan Pro's attempts at more upbeat music are not quite as impressive, although I was able to create some decent techno dance Pieces.
		Koan Pro's documentation is extensive, but it is provided entirely in HTML format; there is no printed manual.
	emusician.com /mag/emusic_sseyo_koan_pro/index.html (2883 words)

	Zen Koan
		Many koan were complied by students about 1,000 years ago into several, now famous books.
		Other schools are not against koan, but have their own methods.
		Understanding koan by reading them is a bit like teaching an alien to have a sense of humour by telling jokes and then explaining them.
	zen.thetao.info /perceive/koan.htm (605 words)

	SITTING AND THE KOAN - Specialists of the Sacred - Yoga and Buddhism - Mircea Eliade, "From Primitives to Zen" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		By reflecting upon various 'public-cases' (koan) and dialogues of the patriarchs, one may perhaps get the sense of them but it will only result in one's being led astray from the way of the Buddha, our founder.
		It is true that our predecessors recommended both the koan and sitting, but it was the sitting that they particularly insisted upon.
		There have been some who attained enlightenment through the test of the koan, but the true cause of their enlightenment was the merit and effectiveness of sitting.
	alexm.here.ru /mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/248.html (156 words)

	A Koan of My Own (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		I'm talking about koans here, and a koan is the little story / paradox / riddle / joke which pops up when someone starts describing Zen.
		Koans have students going up to masters, asking unanswerable questions, getting incomprehensible answers, and then being whacked with sticks.
		The purpose of a koan (they tell me, "they" being people who think about Zen -- ha ha) is to "break the back of logic".
	www.eblong.com /zarf/koan.html (1133 words)

	WeedStash.com: Koan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Koan is an independent Canadian Band based out of the city of Edmonton where Vocalist Ross Crockett, Guitarist Jeff Mclellan, Bass Player Shawn Berke, and Drummer Francis Mella live, work, play, dream, love, and make music.
		Koan was formed in 1998 much like any other band.
		Following closely on the release of Koan's 2nd CD they have been back in the studio creating their latest single release titled "Muddy".
	www.weedstash.com /weed?q=f&f=/Koan (317 words)

	Welcome to Koan Float online
		Located in the historical centre of Amsterdam on one of the city´s 17th century canals, the Ambassade Hotel´s Koan Float is an oasis of tranquillity in an urban environment.
		Floatation tanks are manufactured by Koan Float Technologies.
		Koan Float Centre will be on your right in another 50 metres at Herengracht 341.
	www.koan-float.com /eng/location.php3 (828 words)

	Koan Studies Pages
		Each koan is a window that show the whole truth but just from a single vantage.
		In that senses, koans are neither obscure nor enigmatic.
		Zen dust - the history of the koan and koan study in Rinzai (Lin-chi) Zen.
	www.ciolek.com /WWWVLPages/ZenPages/KoanStudy.html (1899 words)

	Koan Studies - Pi-yen-lu koans
		Although it is a text of fundamental importance for koan study in the Rinzai School it was also studied by Eihei Dogen, the founder of the japanese Soto school, who on the return from Zen studies in China brought with him to Japan a handwritten copy of the document.
		The Pi-yen-lu koan collection served also as a model and a pattern for other works such as the Ts'ung-jung-lu (Book of Equanimity).
		Books dealing exclusively with the koans are referrred to by the year of their publication.
	www.ciolek.com /WWWVLPages/ZenPages/Koans-PYL.html (884 words)

	CD Baby: KOAN: Pushing Back at the Sun
		Koan is an intoxication of guitars, drums, and a voice of brash emotional contempt; although difficult to define, it confidently treads the musical landscape it threatens to lead.
		Edmonton band Koan, with the guidance of veteran producer Nick Blagona, have recently completed their second full-length CD, "Pushing Back at the Sun".
		Koan is a band that connects with people.
	www.cdbaby.com /koan2 (456 words)

	FightingArts.com - The Lighter Side - The Zen Koan
		Koans are short, perplexing, nonsensical statements on which students meditate and try to decipher.
		The goal of Koan study is to force students to break through to enlightened vision.
		After much contemplation, each student is challenged to demonstrate his own solution to the Koan to his master in a private one-on-one session.
	www.fightingarts.com /reading/article.php?id=347 (457 words)

	Review - Koan pro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Koan operates with six voice types: Ambient, Rhythmic, Fixed-Pattern, Follows, Repeat-Bar and Listening and includes a pattern editor for creating dance grooves with Fixed-Pattern riffs and sequences.
		Until recently, Koan was only available in PC form, however there's now a Mac version, largely the same as the Win95 version, but with a PDF file rather than onscreen help and one or two other differences.
		A further, slimmed-down, version of Koan Koan X is also available as a Netscape or Explorer plug-in capable of providing original music for any website.
	www.computermusic.co.uk /reviews/koan/koanmain.asp (809 words)

	untitled.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The practice of Rinzai Zen is called "koan practice." In the case of koan practice, koan implies recorded stories, or sayings of ancient Chinese masters.
		In koan practice, a koan is an expression of the truth or reality, and also a question practitioners have to wrestle with.
		The common understanding of the word koan (shows character) is public document that is on the desk of a government office.
	www.alaska.net /~zen/lecture.html (3529 words)

	Nugent--Christ the Koan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Christ the Koan would return us to the personage of “the mystery of faith,” as against the all-but-comedic spectacle of “Christ the Commodity.” This Christ the Koan whom I find implicit in Sulivan is a transcendental truth, a truth beyond confines of East or West, a Christ the Question as much as Christ the Answer.
		Sulivan’s diffuse Christology is rendered “Christ the Koan” because his God is not the god of the philosophers or idols of the marketplace but the God of the mystics, and the mystics are masters, if not originators, of archetypal paradox.
		Christ the Koan is Son of God and Son of Man, divine yet human, first and last, the root and offspring of David, the primal embodiment of the Paschal mystery of life-through-death.
	www.monasticdialog.com /bulletins/69/nugent.htm (2977 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - koan
		A scientific Koan: what is the cause of cystic fibrosis?
		From 'Sons of the Yellow Emperor' to 'children of Indonesian soil': studying Peranakan Chinese based on the Batavia Kong Koan archives.
		Koans in the Dogen traditon: how and why Dogen does what he does with koans.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/k1/koan.asp (311 words)

	Analysis (Services and Self)
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	yakushitsu.blogspot.com (12627 words)

	CD Baby: KOAN: At Everywhere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Since 1998, Koan has been locked in rehearsal creating a force.
		Although they emerge to play driven shows of original work, Koan thrives on writing and recording their sound.
		Koan is a chaotic blend of its four members' intellectual property.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/koan?cdbaby=52a5e1390880b41d3f3e495eeade2746 (271 words)

	Koan Corporation to Manage Statewide Platform Lab Technical Ope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Koan Corporation to Manage Statewide Platform Lab Technical Operations Koan Corporation has been selected to provide technical management and coordination for Platform Lab, Ohio's statewide information technology test facilities.
		“Koan Corporation has been providing technical services to the Platform Lab for over a year now and we've been extremely happy with their quality of service and level of expertise,” said Steve Gruetter, Platform Lab Director.
		Koan will provide its reconfigurable computing resources to Platform Lab over the Third Frontier Network, a superscale high-speed state network that connects universities, research hospitals, schools, libraries and other institutions across the state of Ohio.
	www.koancorporation.com /news.htm (667 words)

	The Koan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The best-known koan is, of course, “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” I also like “What did you look like before your mother and father were born?” Both of these are verbal tricks.
		Finally, the koan points to an even deeper analogy that is, IMO, fully intended by the Zen master: just as the koan is a logically structured question that, in fact, needs to be answered experientially, so too all metaphysical questions can only be answered in this manner.
		Thus, the koan is not assigned to a student until after the Zen master has determined what the spiritual/existential/metaphysical problem is that the particular student has.
	www.megasociety.org /noesis/149/koan.html (496 words)

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