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koan
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/kohan/ , n. A Zen teaching riddle. Classically, koans are attractive
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paradoxes to be meditated on; their purpose is to help one to enlightenment
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by temporarily jamming normal cognitive processing so that something more
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interesting can happen (this practice is associated with Rinzai Zen
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Buddhism). Defined here because hackers are very fond of the koan form and
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compose their own koans for humorous and/or enlightening effect. See Some AI
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Koans , has the X nature , hacker humor.
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