Sentences with phrase «as koans»
This unforgettable portrait of alienation and regret, told in short passages as rich as koans, delivers a powerful meditation on living life and facing its end.
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This may sound like one of those Zen koans — such as, «What's the sound of one hand clapping» — but I assure you it's not:
«An enemy is as good as a Buddha — goes a famous koan.
Parables function much as the Zen koan, or the tales of the dervishes, to tease the mind out of familiar channels and into a more right - brain view of things.
It functions as a meditation technique analogous to Zen sitting or Koan practice.
Osaka University — or Handai as it is known colloquially — traces its roots to two unique places of study: the Kaitokudo, an academy founded by five local merchants in 1724, and the Tekijuku school, established in 1838 by Koan Ogata, a pioneer of European medicine.
The question has become like a Zen koan at this point, as the director's perplexing adventures in Hollywood have wended through the action / rom - com of The Mexican, a remake of the J - horror staple The Ring, the eclectic animated Western Rango, and three increasingly joyless Pirates Of The Caribbean movies.
A relatively recent version in Liliane Lijn's series focusing on the shape of the cone, Lost Koan has its parallel in the space above the earth's poles where the solar wind meets with the earth's magnetic field, referred to by astrophysicist Dr Stephen B. Mende as the «lost cone».
The Koan was made in 1971 as part of the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation City Sculpture Project and was originally sited in Plymouth; it moved to the Hayward Gallery in London before being purchased by Warwick in 1972.
as though I have just recited their favorite koan.
Given that reading the Model Rules is often as comprehensible as your average Zen koan, this doesn't necessarily give much guidance.
The problem of «identity,» as we would style it today, is the sort of thing that zen masters make their students struggle with, as in the famous dog koan set out above, which tackles the matter elliptically.
That ease does not, however, resolve this user's need for tools that equip me to conduct far more to accurate and adequate blog spelunking than any of the tools currently at our disposal allow — as Mary Hodder, Elisa Camahort, danah boyd, Julie Leung, Koan Bremner and I have written before.