What is your original face? This is just one question—a Zen puzzler known as a “koan”— among many that psychoanalyst and Zen teacher Magid (Ordinary Mind) uses to explore concerns and issues in ...
A koan, as defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is “a paradox to be meditated upon that is used to train Zen Buddhist monks to abandon ultimate dependence on reason and to force them into ...
Eve Myonen Marko and Wendy Egyoku Nakao. Monkfish, $18.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-948626-08-8 Zen teachers Marko and Nakao (Appreciate Your Life) update centuries-old koan stories and ...
All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Philosophical Jigsaw: The Zen Koans Your daily dose of philosophy! Assemble puzzles and watch thought-provoking animations based on Zen Buddhism. To ...
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: ...