Translations for „koan“ in the English » German Dictionary

koan [ˈkəʊɑ:n, Am ˈkoʊ-] N

koan

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English

How the man is to respond became this famous koan.

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I find the internal pressure exerted by emotion and by a koan to be similar in surprising and unpredictable ways.

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Her lyrics are less rebel treatises than koans or ruminations.

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The book combines humour, twists in logic and zen-like koans to get its messages across.

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He finished his formal koan training in 1993.

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Koan practice developed from a literary practice, styling snippets of encounter-dialogue into well-edited stories.

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With this realization, the young monk finally solves the koans and attains the unshakeable peace the old man had spoken about.

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He instructs the young monk to hold the koan between his teeth and to solve them.

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This question became his koan, and he subsequently burned his sutras and set out to settle the matter.

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Each koan epitomizes one or more of the polarities of consciousness that act like an obstacle or wall to the insight.

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