Sentences with word «koan»

A story Fletcher enjoys telling his students, about the drummer Jo Jones throwing a cymbal at a teenage Charlie Parker to punish him for losing the beat, becomes a kind of Zen koan about the limits of performance and pedagogy.

Janet Bellotto has a new exhibition curated by Koan Jeff Baysa opening at MOCA London.

IT SOUNDS like a zen koan.

«An enemy is as good as a Buddha — goes a famous koan.

Cast: Jet Li, Lau Ching Wan, Karen Mok, Ken Lok, Patrick Long Director: Daniel Lee Screenplay: Tsui Hark, Hui Koan, Teddy Chan, Joe Ma Review published December 20, 1996

The Phillips Collection «Figurative Art Today, Between East and West» with panelist Koan Jeff Baysa, Washington, DC

Their works are visual koans, meant not to make sense but to awaken sensation.To do so, they create images that have no apparent narrative, no traditional reference point and perplexing associations.

My favorite koans are the ones that end with some poor monk getting slapped.

To go back to the pseudo-Zen koan I offered at the top: These benefits that look like incentives for people not to work, will actually turn out to be incentives to make more people work for the companies that offer them!

Such koans reveal not just how Clark thinks about his job, but why he's so good at it.

Buddhist monk TN Hahn says «love your enemies» is the greatest phrase ever uttered, the ultimate koan.

It functions as a meditation technique analogous to Zen sitting or Koan practice.

The yellow and black colour of the tropical fruit is understood to represent the colours of Borussia Dortmund and it had «Koan Neuer» scribbled on it, which translates as «No Neuer».

In a discipline where the stretching of time and the warping of space are routine working assumptions, the vacuum remains a sort of cosmic koan.

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.

How the three were chosen for their parts based on these screen tests is just another one of those unanswerable koan things, I guess.

This combo of «inside football» and Capra - corn fable of being one's own man in the face of total opposition... amounts to a corporate training film full of Trump - card koans...

It seemed to me that I was reading a Buddist koan.

Hello Koan - Sin Tan» What type of editor for epub do you use?

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.

It's like that tree falling in the woods unheard koan.

With Liquid Koan Liliane Lijn has used translucent polyester resin to propose a paradox: layers of colour appear distinct and separate, or merge one into another, depending on the angle at which they are seen.

Like irreverent koans that demand the how of response, Mit's chronicles of color and geometry are puzzles to be meditated upon and resolved through impromptu, intuitive reaction.

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 Zen scholar and teacher, Daisetz Suzuki (1870 — 1966), once explained that the origin of the term koan was a kind of certifying document that, in ancient times, was used to test one's understanding of Zen.

The White Koan is a modern art sculpture by Liliane Lijn which is installed outside the main entrance to the Warwick Arts Centre.

Curator Koan Baysa's Drift with Fred Fred Fleisher, Matt Callinan, Marguerite Day, Eric Lopresti, Brian Halloran, Daniel Rothbart, Noah Fuller, Lisa Inman, Gabriela Galvan

His peripatetic curatorial counterpart, Hans Ulrich Obrist, posts gnomic koans by famous artists.

That stoner koan from the 1987 comedy Withnail & I floated into my mind while looking at Amanda Ross - Ho's solo show at Mitchell Innes & Nash.

Among abstraction's most successful advocates was Ad Reinhardt, a polemicist among polemicists, who set it down in clever koans like «Art is against art,» reinforcing the evolutionary, art historical narrative and placing abstraction at its cutting edge.

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.

Morpheus turns out to be Laurence Fishburne in little round sunglasses, playing precisely the urbane black hipster every bored white suburban kid dreams of meeting — the guy who'll turn you on to some opiated hashish, blast you with the tenor solo from «Chasin'the Trane» and lay a heavy Zen koan on you, all in the same afternoon.

Next to these two, and clear as an engineer's blueprint, while at the same time as enigmatic as a zen koan, Donald Judd's pencil plan made in 1977 for one of his stainless steel and green plexiglass sculptures had its own little betrayal of the human hand.

Their works are visual koans, meant not to make sense but to awaken sensation.

as though I have just recited their favorite koan.

*** / **** Image B + Sound A - Extras B - starring Nicholas Tse, Wu Bai, Anthony Wong, Joventino Couto Remotigue written by Koan Hui & Tsui Hark directed by Tsui Hark

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:

The famously philosophical Jackson has filled his book with a mishmash of pop leadership philosophy, Zen koans and basketball anecdotes.

have you ever heard of the Zen koan?

Segregate from the koan and stew the ship vigorously.And remember, never pass up an opportunity to watch an elephant paint Mozart.»

«Scripture» has to be one of the worst valued categories in the world and theology should be cast out and the Buddha should be killed (a Zen Koan).

Similarly, these masters insist that koans must be answered freely and spontaneously by the student or they will not accept the answers.

Even Zen Buddhism recognizes the importance of the question, the koan.