Continuing with my focus on mindfulness and what it has to teach us about procrastination, today I turn to the Zen tradition of the koan. Koans are enigmatic and paradoxical stories that defy solution ...

As defined by Dictionary.com, koan [koh-ahn] is a nonsensical or paradoxical question to a student for which an answer is demanded, the stress of meditation on the question often being illuminating.

GEORGE F. LEE / [email protected] Manfred B. Steger, left, and Perle Besserman, founders of a new Grassroots Zen meditation group at the Chan Khong Zen Monastery in Aina Haina, practice a ...

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein reviews Cosmological Koans: a Journey to the Heart of Physics by Anthony Aguirre Cosmic questions: Anthony Aguirre’s new book borrows the concept of koans from Zen Buddhism: ...