Are koans used in Soto Zen?
http://www.zen-deshimaru.com/EN/sangha/deshimaru/q-r/1629.htm

Artificial Intelligence Koans
http://www.serve.com/cmtan/buddhism/Lighter/aikoans.html

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 Book of Equanimity: Illuminating Classic Zen Koans - by Gerry Shishin Wick - book - The first-ever complete English commentaries on one of the most beloved clasic collections of Zen teaching stories, making them vividly relevant to spiritual seekers and Zen students in the 21st century.

 Box of Zen: Haiku the Poetry of Zen, Koans the Lessons of Zen, Sayings the Wisdom of Zen by Manuela Mascetti - hardcover

 

 Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans to Bring You Joy by John Tarrant - book - Bring Me the Rhinoceros is an unusual guide to happiness and a can opener for your thinking. For fifteen hundred years, Zen koans have been passed down through generations of masters, usually in private encounters between teacher and student. This book deftly retells fourteen traditional koans, which are partly paradoxical questions dangerous to your beliefs and partly treasure boxes of ancient wisdom. Koans show that you don’t have to impress people or change into an improved, more polished version of yourself. Instead you can find happiness by unbuilding, unmaking, throwing overboard, and generally subverting unhappiness. John Tarrant brings the heart of the koan tradition out into the open, reminding us that the old wisdom remains as vital as ever, a deep resource available to anyone in any place or time.

 

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Carrying a girl across a river

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 Death Was His Koan: Samurai Zen of Suzuki Shosan by Winston L. King - book - Biography and views of Shosan (1579-1655), a samurai turned Zen Buddhist monk, by a noted scholar.

 

Differently Abled Koans
http://www.windchimewalker.net/-webpages/koans.html

Dogen's Genjo Koan (Pt.1) - ordinary extraordinary

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Every End Exposed: The 100 Koans of MasterKido - With the Answers of Hakuin - Zen by Master Kido - book

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Face to Face: The Meaning Comes Alive by Jiko Linda Cutts

 Flowing Bridge: Guidance on Beginning Zen Koans - by Elaine MacInnes - book - Koans such as “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” have become part of everyday speech, yet those who encounter them while exploring Zen practice often find them utterly baffling. This book offers valuable guidance on how to work with some of the beginning koans, revealing an uncommon depth of insight and an easeful technical mastery of Zen’s most misunderstood and powerful tools. Included are teachings on fundamental koans including Joshu’s Dog and The Source of Mu, as well as lesser-known beginner's koans.

 

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The Gateless Barrier: The Wu-Men Kuan by Robert Aitken - book - The Mumonkan is a classic Zen text consisting of 48 koans collected by Wu-men, a Chinese master who lived in the 13th century. This fresh translation and commentary by Aitken, a prominent American Zen master, is striking in its evidence of careful scholarship and attention to the problems of translation.

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Hekiganroku - 100 koans

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 Iron Flute: 100 Zen Koans by Nyogen Senzaki, Ruth Strout McCandless - book - The deepest knowledge in a spiritual tradition can be found in its stories, and in Buddhism these stories are the ancient Koans, used by Zen Monks for centuries to stimulate enlightenment. This collection of Koans was compiled by eighteenth-century Japanese Zen master Genro, who, along with his disciple, Fugai , and a living Zen master, Nyogen Senzaki, comments on each Koan.

 

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Kapleau's New Book on Koans, and a Special Koan Concerning Maitreya
http://www.geocities.com/saint7peter/KapleausNewBookonKoans.html

Killing the Buddha - explanation

Koan - definition - by Fact Monster

Koan in Zen Buddhism - some history and explanation 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3403982

Koan Riddles told by the Zen Masters 
http://www.terebess.hu/english/zen.html

Koans
http://goto.bilkent.edu.tr/gunes/ZEN/koans.htm

Koans - explanation
alt.pholosphy.taoism

Koans
http://www.symynet.com/zen_buddhism/koans_mumonkan/index.htm

Koans - Introduction
http://www.symynet.com/zen_buddhism/koans_mumonkan/index.htm

Koans - a collection by Len Tower
http://www.art.net/Studios/Hackers/Tower/koans.html

Koans and 'Irrelevance Theory
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/robyn/relevance/relevance_archives/0558.html

Koans - Jargon File
http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Jargon_File/15770.htmll

Koans - information about koans

Koans of the Zen Librarian - The Laughing Librarian
http://www.laughinglibrarian.com/koans_yours.htm

 Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism by Steven Heine, Dale S. Wright - book - Koans are enigmatic spiritual formulas used for religious training in the Zen Buddhist tradition. Arguing that our understanding of the koan tradition has been extremely limited, contributors to this collection examine previously unrecognized factors in the formation of this tradition, and
highlight the rich complexity and diversity of koan practice and literature.

Koan Zen - explanation

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 Love, Freedom, Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships by Osho - book - The first few chapters of self-styled guru Osho's spiritual insights on love, sex and meditation are infused with an idiosyncratic but reasonably mainstream flavor. As the book progresses, however, Osho's teachings veer sharply away from conventional spirituality. In a chapter entitled "It Takes a Village," Osho envisions a future in which communes replace the family, calling this "the most revolutionary step in human history."

 

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 Meditating With Koans by J.C. Cleary, Zhuhong - book - Koans (those gnomish, paradoxical conversational exchanges between Zen master and student) have been used as focal points for Buddhist meditation for centuries in China and Japan. Cleary's excellent introduction is a perfect setting for this little Chinese Zen gem from about 1600. Included are lessons on using koans given by a wide range of classic Zen teachers.

 

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No Barrier: Unlocking the Zen Koan/a New Translation of the Zen Classic Wumenguan (Mumonkan) by Huikai, Thomas Cleary - book - A translation of a Chinese Zen classic called the "Wumenguan" from about A.D. 1200, this book will be popular with anyone seriously interested in Buddhism or Zen meditation. There are 48 koans (symbolic stories or sayings by Zen masters), followed by commentaries by later Zen masters and then an explanation by the author. Obviously, Zen koans aren't to be unlocked by simply reading a book; to remedy this, Cleary, who has studied them for 30 years and has a doctorate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard, provides a helpful section on how to read and work with koans and the commentaries. Recommended for libraries with patron interest in the subject.- Del Cain, V.A. Medical Ctr. Lib., Bedford, Mass.

 

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Old Koans, New Koans, One Koan by Jan Chozen Bays, Sensei
http://www.kwanumzen.com/primarypoint/v05n2-1988-spring-janchozenbays-oldkoansnewkoansonekoan.html

 Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Master by Steven Heine - book - In Opening a Mountain, Steven Heine takes a unique look at the Zen koan, delving into its mythological background and its relationship to folk beliefs. Even with available commentaries, koan are enigmatic at best, but in a virtuosic display of historical and textual scholarship, Heine brings us a step closer to understanding what the koan are saying and where they come from.

 

 

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 Pointing at the Moon: One Hundred Zen Koans from Chinese Masters by Alexander holstein - book

 

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Random Koans - every time you go to the site, you get a different koan.

Rootless Root - The Unix Koans of Master Foo
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/

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Samurai Zen: The Warrior Koans by Trevor Leggett - book - 'The cherry-blossoms of Yoshino, which will bloom with the spring - If we cult the tree open to find them, where would they be?' SAMURAI ZEN: the Warrior Koans unites 100 of the rare riddles representing the core spiritual discipline of Japan's ancient Samurai tradition. Dating from the thirteenth-century records of Japan's Kamakura temples, and traditionally guarded with a reverent secrecy, they reflect the earliest manifestation of pure Zen in Japan as created by Zen Masters for their warrior pupils.

Satori, The Koan, and Monastic Polishing - ZBOHY (Zen Buddhist Order of Hsu Yun)

Select a Koan
http://www.nozen.com/koans.htm

 Sitting with Koans: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Koan Study - by John Daido Loori - book - The Zen tradition has just two main meditative practices: shikantaza, or "just sitting;" and introspection guided by the powerful Zen teaching stories called koans. Following up on his previous book, The Art of Just Sitting, John Daido Loori's new anthology illuminates the subtle practice of koan study from many viewpoints.

Sound of the One Hand: 281 Zen Koans with Answers by Hau Hoo - book

Sound of One Hand
http://www.ordinarymind.com/koan_onehand.html

Sound of One Hand - Portland Zen Community

Sound of One Hand Clapping
http://www.lifepositive.com/Spirit/world-religions/buddhism/zen/koan.asp

Stop the distant rowboat using just your mind - explanation

 Straight to the Heart of Zen: Eleven Classic Koans and Their Inner Meanings by Philip Kapleau - book - "Kapleau offers wise commentary on emptiness, joy, practice, nonduality, silence, and student-teacher relationships. What a treat to have these eleven classic koans opened up for us by this Zen master!"— Spirituality & Health

Supreme Koan by Frederick Franck - book

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Talks on Koans
http://www.ordinarymind.com/koans_frameset.html

 Thirty-Three Fingers: A Collection of Modern American Koans by Michael Wenger, Sojun M. Weisman - book - Soto Zen lineage for a collection of recent American Koans.

 

 True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans - by John Daido Loori - book - Zen students and scholars will find The True Dharma Eye to be a source of deep insight into the mind of one of the world's greatest religious thinkers, as well as the practice of koan study itself. Following the spirit of Dogen's pioneering efforts to carry the dharma across cultural divides, John Daido Loori Roshi, one of the West's most respected Zen teachers, has added his own verses and commentaries to each koan. The resulting volume presents readers with a uniquely contemporary perspective on Dogen's profound teachings and their relevance for twenty-first-century Western practitioners of Zen.

 Two Arrows Meeting in Mid-Air: The Zen Koan by John Daido Loori - book - In this masterful study, Zen teacher Loori, abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery in upstate New York, lucidly demonstrates the power of the koan (a poetic riddle that, lacking a logical answer, disrupts the reason of the hearer so that enlightenment may follow). In an introductory section, Loori traces the history of dharma (wisdom about harmony with the cosmos) in Zen Buddhism. In the remainder of the book, he collects 21 koans from classical and modern sources and then teaches them through his extended dharma discourses.

 

 Two Zen Classics: Mumonkan and Hekiganroku by Hui-Kai Wu-Men Kuan - book - The strange verbal paradoxes called koans have been used in Zen training to help students attain a direct realization of truths inexpressible in words. The two works translated in this book, Mumonkan ( Gateless Gate ) and Hekiganroku ( Blue Cliff Record), both compiled during the Song dynasty in China, are the best known and most frequently studied koan collections, and are classics of Zen literature. In a completely new translation, together with original commentaries, Katsuki Sekida brings to these works the same fresh and pragmatic approach that made his Zen Training so successful. The insights of a lifetime of Zen practice and his familiarity with Western as well as Eastern ways of thinking make him an ideal interpreter of these texts.

 

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Understanding the Meaning of Zen Koans
http://mtmt.essortment.com/zenkoanspiritu_rlmp.htm

 Unlocking the Zen Koan: A New Translation of the Zen Classic Wumenguan by Huikai, Thomas Cleary - book - In Unlocking the Zen Koan (originally published as No Boundary), Thomas Cleary translates directly from the Chinese and interprets Zen Master Wumen's text and commentaries in verse and prose on the inner meaning of the koans.

 

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Warrior Koans: Early Zen in Japan by Trevor Leggett - book

What Is A Koan? - Koan Practice - explanation of koans

Working with Koans - by John Tarrant Roshi

Wu-men Kuan Case 30 - This Very Mind is Buddha - by Ross Bolleter Roshi

Wu-Men Kuan - (by J.Mumonkan, E. Gateless Gate) koans

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Zen Bow Article: Workng on Koans
http://www.rzc.org/html/library/zenbow/workingkoans.shtml

Zen Buddhism An Introduction to Zen with Stories, Parables and Koan Riddles of the Zen Masters - book

Zen Buddhism Koan Study Pages
http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/ZenPages/KoanStudy.html

Zen Button

 Zen Koans by Gyomay M. Kubose - book

 

Zen Koans
http://www.enlightenedbuddha.com/zen_koans.htm

Zen Koans by Bruce Marcot
http://www.spiritone.com/~brucem/koans.htm

Zen Koans
http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/zenindex.html

Zen koans
stumbleupon.com

Zen Koans - Transcending Duality
http://www.chinapage.com/zen/koan1.html

  Zen Koan As a Means of Attaining Enlightenment by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki - book

 

 Zen Koan Card Pack by Timothy Freke - hardcover - A koan is a "Zen phrase or question that can be used as an object of contemplation, leading the student to deep insight into life." Timothy Freke's Zen Koan Card Pack gives you a chance to dip your toes into this ancient philosophical pool. The beautifully decorated box set contains a small guide and 30 koan cards, whose phrases may strike you as ridiculous at first ("to find yourself is to lose yourself"), yet generate new discoveries as they are considered more carefully.

 

  Zen Koan: Its History and Use in Rinazi Zen by Isshu Miura, Ruth Sasaki - book - The first scholarly examination in any language of the historical development and traditional method of koan study in Zen Buddhism. Foreword by Ruth Fuller Sasaki; Index; ink drawings by Hakuin Ekaku.A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.

Zen Koans - Transcending Duality
http://www.chinapage.com/zen/koan1.html

 

 Zen Sand: The Book of Capping Phrases for Koan Practice by Victor Sogen Hori - book - Zen Sand is a classic collection of verses aimed at aiding practitioners of koan meditation to negotiate the difficult relationship between insight and language. As such it represents a major contribution to both Western Zen practice and English-language Zen scholarship.

Zenzen: book of Illustrated Koans by Glen Lovelace - book

  Zero Experience: Zen Koans by Amiyo Ruhnke - book

 

 

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