How the man is to respond became this famous koan.

It has been too long since I have decoded your koans.

But here are two more questions that are not exactly a koan.

I crack the koan simultaneously with an act of giving up on it.

This sounds like a Zen koan, and it is as difficult to answer.

It is uncertain which are exactly those eight koans.

As an example of a koan, a student can be asked to present to the master their genuine self, "Show me who you really are".

The Master must devise a secret rule for koans to follow.

If a piece the Student wants is not available, he or she may ask the Master to break a koan down.

"Mondo", on the other hand, requires all Students to guess whether the new koan is white or black.

He organized the study of koans into a system, which was exported to Japan in this period.

He spoke in riddles and koans with a French accent.

My life makes about as much sense as a Zen koan.

Instead, he rolled up in his blankets and recited a koan.

A koan was a kind of a riddle, or paradox, without a solution.

And in this context koan does not refer to these teaching stories, but to the heart of the matter."

A table of contents with the title of each koan.

Pure conversation has often been compared to the Zen practice of koan.

The koans are: What is my original face before my mother and father were conceived?

The results have been as funny as a Zen koan.

It was a classic form of a Bob Rubin koan.

It's like a Zen koan, a puzzle that teachers give to students to ponder.

The answer to Nakamura's Koan doesn't seem four years closer.

I like to think Nakamura knew all that and left his koan to remind us of mat truth.

A mere "answer" to a koan is not sufficient.