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- Herausgeber: Books on Demand
- Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
- Sprache: Englisch
Koan Teddy Bears meditate on the meaning of life and the meaning of being. Together they seek enlightenment and enjoy nature as it is. They ask us for a joint journey to learn the truths of Zen.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023
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Contents
Kōans and their significance in Buddhist meditation
My master and me
The first lesson
The second lesson
The third lesson
The fourth lesson
The fifth lesson
The sixth lesson
The seventh lesson
The eighth lesson
The ninth lesson
The tenth lesson
The eleventh lesson
The twelfth lesson
The thirteenth lesson
The fourteenth lesson
The fifteenth lesson
The sixteenth lesson
The seventeenth lesson
The eighteenth lesson
The nineteenth lesson
The twentieth lesson
The twenty-first lesson
The twenty-second lesson
The twenty-third lesson
The twenty-fourth lesson
The twenty-fifth lesson
The twenty-sixth lesson
The twenty-seventh lesson
The twenty-eighth lesson
The twenty-ninth lesson
The thirtieth lesson
The thirty-first lesson
The thirty-second lesson
The thirty-third lesson
The thirty-fourth lesson
The thirty-fifth lesson
The thirty-sixth lesson
The thirty-seventh lesson
The thirty-eighth lesson
The thirty-ninth lesson
The fortieth lesson
The forty-first lesson
The forty-second lesson
The forty-third lesson
The forty-fourth lesson
The forty-fifth lesson
The forty-sixth lesson
The forty-seventh lesson
The forty-eighth lesson
The forty-ninth lesson
The fiftieth lesson
The last lesson
Kōans and their significance in Buddhist meditation
Kōans are short texts or narratives used in Zen practice. Their purpose is to induce a mental state of great confusion or suspicion in the student or novice monk. They seek to have the same effect as an unexpected slap: the mental state is shaken and the experiencer loses control of his constructed mind and, in trying to restore it, finds his task hopeless. You have to step outside the narrative in your own mind.
Kōans can take the form of short stories, dialogues, arguments, even jokes, and thus they also have cultural-historical value, especially when real or invented religious authorities have been used as persons. They also always inform about the time, landscape as well as the people and their culture in which they were created.
Enlightenment, or satori, has also been sought or defined with the help of kōans. The definition of that space is fuzzy, as is the space itself. Buddhist rhetoric and logic involve a lot of talk and definitions of what cannot be defined or verbalized.
A similar way of speaking can be found in several religions and especially in their branches that are familiar with or steeped in mysticism. The allegory of enlightenment is indeed a frequently used description of satori. However, in the speech of the masters, it is not clear whether this space actually exists or that it is somehow fuzzy or vague to the experiencer of the space. It simply is. Seeing directly or looking past one's own mind is satori.
