Definitions for "Koan"
Keywords:  zen, riddle, paradox, puzzle, buddhism
(J) a seemingly impossible riddle such as ‘what was your face before the birth of your parents?' or ‘where is the silence?' used during meditation to try to achieve sudden enlightenment.
a riddle that cannot be solved by intellectual thinking used in Rinzai Zen meditation; one's own particular delusion(s).
Literally "public case." Koans are usually brief stories about the Masters and their disciples that are employed by the Zen student as the basis for intense questioning. Since koans cannot be solved by the discursive intellect, they force the student to leap beyond him- or herself. Because of this they are a very helpful method of practice for students with a strong desire to resolve fundamental existential questions.
Keywords:  embun, murakami, gon, kung, reigning
A Japanese term taken from the Chinese Kung-an.
Kōan (康安) was a Japanese era of the Northern Court during the Era of Northern and Southern Courts after Embun and before Jōji and lasting from 1361 to 1362. Reigning Emperors were Emperor Go-Murakami in the south and Emperor Go-Kōgon in the north.
Keywords:  reality, attests, ultimate, pure, case
a "case", that attests the entering in another plan of reality
"Public case", a pure presentation of the nature of ultimate reality.
An Object Relational Mapping System Based on Scott Ambler's designs. Koan has a powerful and highly extensible code generation system and is designed for production use within an enterprise environment.
a projection of a "real" object-situation-element of life to a wrong ("plane") consciousness platform
a state of consciousness
Keywords:  insight, invoke, ideas, tool, reasoning
a tool to invoke the student's insight that does not depend on reasoning, ideas, and words
Keywords:  crazy, drive, special, method, you
a special method to drive you crazy
a unique kind of story that is both short and powerful
Literally, a 'public record;' a story pointing to realization.