| 单词 | koan |
| 例句 | We had one that Wednesday morning: Share an example of a Buddhist koan. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I bet if I did, he’d suggest meditation or come out with some Zen koan to counteract it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z What would be a great oxymoron bordering on Zen koan? Perspective | Gene Weingarten’s definitive guide to the ‘nothingburger’ 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z She cited a Zen koan that she’s been thinking about lately: How is it when the tree withers and the leaves fall? A Dancer and Chaplain Illuminates the Invisible With Patience 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z And all those knowingly self-contradictory epigrams, simultaneously flippant and deathly serious, almost like Zen koans: coming at eternal truth by a sort of profound, solemn mischievousness. Dorian Gray's true picture of Oscar Wilde 2010-04-29T09:01:00Z My approach was to make this paradox, which itself has a Salinger-like sense of koan, central to the writing process. 'The Escape Artist': Thomas Beller Talks About J. D. Salinger 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Nielsen’s ability to stay in character, to reel off sublime non sequiturs and koans of cluelessness with a precisely measured balance of dignity and density represents both a rare gift and considerable work. Unsinkable Captain of Spoofs 2010-12-01T20:43:00Z The closest I got to an elucidation of the menu was when a server said, “Everything is individually portioned and meant to be shared with the table” — a Zen koan for our time. Lost in New York at Public Kitchen 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Every event is ambiguous enough to be at home in a myth or koan. Chloe Aridjis’s “Sea Monsters” Is a Hypnotic Narrative of Disenchantment 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z After all, its title is a Zen koan unto itself: “It Is What It Is.” Think there can’t be a jazz-funk fusion superstar in 2020? Then you don’t know Thundercat. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The novel’s ending clicks elegantly in sync with the beginning and holds a koan. In This Novel, a Mother Risks Everything for a Second Chance 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z “How can we just sit in a parking lot all day?” was this morning’s koan. To Campuses Without a Compass 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Several episodes have now been titled using Zen tales, or koans, including even “A Muddy Road.” 'Fargo' Recap: Baring Teeth 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z As the Brazilian filmmaker João Moreira Salles pointed out in his recent documentary “In the Intense Now,” those militant Parisian slogans sound like nothing so much as advertising catchphrases, less Marxist aphorisms than capitalist koans. Dystopia, Apocalypse, Culture War: 2018 or 1968? 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z While the questions raised by the koan about the duality of life are likely a bit complex for young readers, they still will enjoy the story's inherent spookiness. Halloween books that are a treat for kids and parents 2010-10-22T23:42:00Z And Guadagnoli conceives her images as “in the spirit of Buddhist koans,” according to her statement. Review | In the galleries: At cultural center, art that’s tethered to South Korea 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z In the 1970s, Oliveros published a series of “Sonic Meditations,” playful koans meant to heighten our experience of listening. Learning to Listen to, and Beyond, the Siren’s Call 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z Frat boys made their entire “About Me” sections on Facebook a compendium of Durden koans: “You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.” “Gone Girl” didn’t botch the “cool girl” speech — it clarified it 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z In present circumstances, I think this question is what we call a koan. Barbara Kingsolver: By the Book 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Groves’ approach to fishing is somewhere between a Zen koan and “Catch-22.” Ice Fishing Is Fun! 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z It’s an impossible admonition, almost a koan, but its essential condition of wariness is true to form. New Albums by Miranda Lambert, Meshell Ndegeocello and Taylor McFerrin 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z It embodies a philosophical conundrum, like a Zen koan. Perspective | Nam June Paik predicted the Internet, YouTube and Instagram. But he was more interesting as an artist than as a prophet. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z But like any great koan, it generates more questions. Review | Three guitarists head into the beautiful unknown. (Is it still jazz?) 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Helpfully, Mr. Gere appears to explain what a koan is to Bartholomew, who realizes that his life is full of them. Books of The Times: ‘The Good Luck of Right Now’ Is a Story of Cute Misfits 2014-02-10T21:44:43Z Many of these musical koans are held together by the contradiction of stillness and movement with hyperkinetic streams of tiny notes forming sound sculptures that appear to hover in space. Review: Meredith Monk Ends Carnegie Hall Run With Mystery and Mastery 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z He is gracious, answers every question, even those he may not want to, but often in koans, as though the long route might prove more interesting. Where has Jonathan Safran Foer been all these years? 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z This is the Zen koan of TV comedy: How do you become the next Seinfeld? Seinfeld at 25: There's Still Nothing Else Like It 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z The phrase “yesterday was here today” is written on the frame like a koan — but maybe also a clever advertisement. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z As the world’s leading scholar on Gregory Pardlo, Sr., I know these pronouncements he’s polished, these homemade koans impenetrable to reason, that were once the punch lines of tired jokes. The Cost of Defying the President 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Call it a koan to contain the ambivalence of enjoying an often-awful world. The Many Lives of Martine Syms 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z That served as today’s koan, especially after my iPhone revealed that “jellied moose nose” is not some Yankee mondegreen but — this is still hard to believe — simple descriptive prose. To Campuses Without a Compass 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z He was no longer constrained by the format of the sketch — he was free to create koans, tiny polished gems of comedy. Jack Handey Is the Envy of Every Comedy Writer in America 2013-07-15T19:46:10Z “Our desire to retain control over what happens to our bodies and psyches while also seeking experiences of surrender and abandon is a big koan,” she writes. Review | In Maggie Nelson’s ‘On Freedom,’ liberation and entrapment aren’t easy to untangle 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z That inane koan launched her globe-spanning career as a social media star. Review | Two authors expose the deceptive, self-aggrandizing absurdity of online life 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z In fact, he finds eight thinkers worthy of a chapter each, as well as some bit-players like a Zen Buddhist who answers the question by attempting to bop Holt on the head, koan style. ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-03T22:40:08Z Rather than attempting to resolve the essential crises of those vectors, Nelson’s essays tease out simultaneous and contradictory truths, or koans. Review | In Maggie Nelson’s ‘On Freedom,’ liberation and entrapment aren’t easy to untangle 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z But the best of them, when you really turn them over, are as profound as Zen koans: “If you can’t imitate him, don’t copy him.” ‘It Ain’t Over’ Review: When Yogi Berra Saw a Strike, He Hit It 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z This, on the fourth song, “Under the Table,” was where the album really opened up for me: jazz koans meet protest chants meet children’s song sweetness. Fiona Apple Is Back and Unbound: Let’s Discuss 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z There is no indication of what to do with this musical koan. To introduce a newly discovered John Cage work, CalArts makes much of 'Minimalism means' 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Stein wrote that koan in a Vanity Fair essay where she grappled with her own success. Vanessa Hudgens: ‘I always wanted to be the indie girl playing a drug addict or stripper’ 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z The clip was retweeted more than a hundred thousand times, but, when I watched it, I felt like I was standing alone in a rock garden, having a koan whispered into my ear. Keanu Reeves Is Too Good for This World 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z This is the koan that fuels this season: It is the sound of one hand stoically waving. Review: ‘The Crown’ and the Burdens of a No-Drama Queen 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Like: What would happen if the work of 10 artists suddenly leapt off the walls and onto some bodies to become what Ms. Kawakubo called, in her Zen koan of the season, “multidimensional graffiti”? In the Russian Embassy with Comme des Garçons and Other Weirdness 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Like so many other questions in this book, this one is posed as a head-scratching koan. Did He Really Say That? On the Perils and Pitfalls of Translation 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z “I was face to face with my familiar koan: how to be with the incandescent beauty of the iceberg without grieving the loss of polar bear habitat.” The Examined Life May Be More Worth Living. Reading About It Is Another Matter. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z In that sense, Keanu Reeves is a koan: a paradox that confounds all reason. Review: In John Wick, Keanu Reeves is Back Up to Speed 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Shorter has only got more oblique over the years, seemingly content to treat interviews as excuses to spontaneously invent Zen koans and review films. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Read it on a beach for the refreshment of a classic boy-meets-girl plot, or turn the pages more slowly to soak in some truly salty koans and morally insolvent characters. A Debut Novel Mixes Lust With the Directionlessness of Youth 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z These are participatory shows, but in a solitary and covert way that seems like some kind of theatrical koan. For These Shows, Take a Hike 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z It’s like a Zen koan: If you plop a 60-acre farm in the middle of a city, is it still a city? Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Feel free to follow another of Cage’s koans: “Begin anywhere.” Perspective | Best classical music of 2020: The Met Opera’s nightly streams, ‘Blue,’ ‘Wagnerism’ and more 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Secrets to his teaching “He speaks in contradictions and koans. He’s always making jokes and puns directed at himself and others.” What a Group of Disciples Discovered Along the Way 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z “They induce reflection, and maybe even learning, like the folk tales and Buddhist koans that inform her work.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z He offered a koan that Cannes attendees and watchers might do well to keep in mind amid the swelling din of the next 12 days: “The more voices you hear the more they become silence.” Special Report: Cannes Festival: They'll Always Have Cannes 2012-05-15T23:11:00Z The koan will not nudge Cage scholarship forward in any significant degree, but if any musicologist is interested in exploring Cage and generosity of spirit, this is a handy new morsel. To introduce a newly discovered John Cage work, CalArts makes much of 'Minimalism means' 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Every year it boggles the mind, like a Buddhist koan: “What is the sound of one hand clapping for itself?” The 2018 Emmys: Nerd Love and Hannah Gadsby Won the Night 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z And so sad. @sosadtoday is, in fact, the name of Broder’s popular Twitter feed, a place of quick, witty personal koans of lively despair. The Merman of Her Dreams 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z In both cases, asking what the point is becomes an unanswerable Zen koan: If you’re posing the question, the movie already didn’t work for you. A better border is possible 2012-05-26T22:00:00Z The central koan of Franz’s book — a struggle toward spiritual enlightenment catalyzed by romantic desire — feels especially frustrating without a better understanding of this powerful attachment. An American in Japan, Leading a Zen Koan of a Life 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z It’s a Montessori koan course, a hands-on demonstration of what it means for signs and objects to be both empty and real. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z A Zen-like cautionary notice on the trains of the Tokyo Metro, I noticed on a recent trip, could be interpreted as a koan on the meaning of life: “Doors close soon after the melody ends.” Mahler lives! Dudamel gives his most impressive performance yet with L.A. Phil 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z “Our relationship,” he writes, “largely depended upon my never becoming fluent, on my having an excuse to speak in enigmatic fragments or koans.” Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z Clearly some sort of advanced technology was required to achieve this otherwise impossible state, but the final product has a nice, counterintuitive simplicity, like a three-dimensional koan. Art Review: ‘Lightness of Being’ Group Show at City Hall Park 2013-08-22T22:01:07Z They all addressed the songs’ emotional koans in their own way. Music: Less Fleet, but More Mature, Foxes 2011-04-29T18:36:51Z He parses both enigmatic Buddhist koans and the put-downs used in playing the Dozens, the African American game of competitive insults: “You’re so dumb you think the Supreme Court is where Diana Ross plays tennis.” Review | So you think it’s all a big joke? What wit really is — and why we need it. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Disentangling the way we perceive silence is like a Zen koan for neuroscientists—they must literally confront the sound of one hand clapping. Do We Actually ‘Hear’ Silence? 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Altman's early question to Kornfield, akin to a Zen koan, served as a meditation for the two techno-spiritualists on stage, transcending rational thought to confront the central paradox of AI: How will we know? Zen and the artificial intelligence: Sam Altman’s congressional koan 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Couplets like “Desperately, I / complicate your life” and “Can I be happy / in this world?” serve as koans that help listeners strive for deeper understanding. 4 concerts to catch in D.C. over the next several days 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z My favorite Keanu koan, and one that more movie stars would do well to heed, is this: “Act without expectation.” Perspective | The full Keanu: Mellowest guy on the planet to onscreen killing machine 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z But in his 90s, he is more and more like an old sage tossing out Zen koans. Review | At 95, Alex Katz is having another moment. His Guggenheim show is a knockout. 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z The instructions in “Grapefruit” are like koans, those aids to meditation used by Zen Buddhists to break down the resistance of human reason to a deeper, fuller awareness. Perspective | No matter what the haters say, Yoko Ono was always about peace. Now her message is on a Times Square billboard. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z In the years since, I’ve thought about “for the energy” as a kind of Zen koan for whatever it is that makes us put up with New York. Stop Spreading the News: The Case for a New York Without Tourists 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z “What does that mean? It was like hearing a koan from a zen master.” 'It sounded like the future': behind Miles Davis's greatest album 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z It’s a reminder of one of the Icicle Fund’s founding koans. A year into her succession plan, Harriet Bullitt prepares for Sleeping Lady to ‘thrive beyond my lifetime’ 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z The koan has basically nothing to do with my life, but I found myself nodding. Silicon Valley Goes to Therapy 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z We know Jesus’ parables better than we do the doctrine of the Trinity, though the latter is far more central to Christianity, just as we know Zen monks’ koans better than Zen monastery practices. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Of all the “Peanuts” koans I live by, the one that contains the deepest wisdom may well be “Happiness is a warm puppy.” Perspective | Snoopy taught me how to be a writer 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Spend some time turning that sentence over in your head, like a Zen koan, and something instructional eventually falls out. Yoko Ono joins the clangers: why bell-ringing is the new bed-in 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z It wasn’t an M. C. Escher drawing or a Zen koan. “The Starlet Apartments” 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z The phrase is repeated throughout the novel, and, with its double meaning, it functions like a koan. Why Marlon James Decided to Write an African “Game of Thrones” 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Hesse’s moral is similar to that of a famous Zen koan: “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.” Hermann Hesse’s Arrested Development 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z France’s tactics looked less like a diagram of movement and more like the realization, on the pitch, of a book of paradoxical koans. World Cup 2018: France and the Triumph of Negative-Capability Football 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z Wheeler has condensed these ideas into a phrase that resembles a Zen koan: “the it from bit.” Do Our Questions Create the World? 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z They debate theology and Zen koans when they get together, but good-naturedly. 'An Undivided Heart' on stage is 'Spotlight' meets 'A Civil Action,' with a dash of Tammy Wynette 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z I asked Poulter about that moment after the match, and he began with something that sounded like a Buddhist koan: "The beauty of match play is the beauty of match play." Ian Poulter's match play genius can't be stopped by form or time - Golf Digest 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Or, as Gallup himself put it in 1940, in a sort of civics-class koan, “the limitations and the shortcomings of the polls are the limitations and shortcomings of public opinion itself.” Do Trump’s ‘Approval’ Numbers Tell Us About Him, or About Us? 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z At first glance, this might look like light verse, but it's deep and rich, a kind of zen koan that is also a meditation on aging and, to me at least, longevity in marriage. 'The Complete Poems' of A.R. Ammons amount to a profound experience of empathy – LA Times 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z After all, aren’t those Zen koans — “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” and so on — supposed to suggest that language, and the linear thought it embodies, can’t capture the truth about reality? Opinion | Buddhism Is More ‘Western’ Than You Think 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Like zen koans, each hour of The Return contains profound truths nested within contradictions, and the dogged pursuit of those truths nurtures the soul. Twin Peaks: The Return created a new kind of escapist TV 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z He is, at his best, a poet of home-brewed koans, threading his philosophical paradoxes into scenes of slacker glamour. Bill Knott’s Anti-Career of Guerrilla Poetry 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z It seemed less like a question of sports than a Zen koan: What is the sound of one hand clapping? The Misunderstood Genius of Russell Westbrook 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Ted, Jr.,’s boozy koan: “First you hate it. Then you like it. It’s called beer.” “Rectify” Is a Quiet Marvel 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z At first, Wagner guided a mini-orchestra's worth of collaborators — strings, keyboards, heavy bass, the occasional horn — through his literate, existential twang-soul koans. What to listen to now: The Drive-By Truckers, Lambchop, Wet and Public Image LTD 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Through his translators, though, he adapted traditional Japanese koans for his American students: “How do you realize Buddha nature while driving a car?” Leonard Cohen Makes It Darker 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z In this sense, the Useless Machine is like a battery-operated koan: a playfully profound riddle on the relationship between humans and technology, and on the nature of intelligence. Letter of Recommendation: The Useless Machine 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z To give it a typically challenging Gengras spin, he mixed in loops and samples from recent rap and R&B jams, some of which loop like Zen koans. California Sounds: New music from Zack de la Rocha, Kim Gordon and M. Geddes Gengras exudes beauty and grit 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z It was a koan about life in the guise of acting advice that her co-star took to heart. Meryl Streep: A League of Her Own 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Theres an old Coachella koan that we made up, and it says, She who sees everything at Coachella truly saw nothing. Coachella 2016: Your survival guide 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z You were like some nerd hippie who only spoke in Zen koans. Twitter, I love you. Please don't go changing 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z The Useless Machine "is like a battery-operated koan" as a tree's leaves are like its roots. Letter of Recommendation: The Useless Machine 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z This kind of impossible Buddhist riddle, or koan, is meant to aid enlightenment. HSBC: Solving the Puzzle of Its Dividend Yield 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z When something is blatantly obvious, I think of the immortal koan of Zenmaster Herman Edwards, when he coached the Jets. M.L.S. Takes the Next Step, but Its Fans Are One Ahead 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Which is either a direct contradiction or a crazy business koan that, once cracked, will yield immediate enlightenment. This Is the Slimiest Thing Executives Are Doing Now 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z His students rose at 3 a.m. for chanting, exhausting hours of meditation and one-on-one meetings with their teacher, who would pose impenetrable koans, riddles such as, ‘When you see the flower, where is God?’ Joshu Sasaki Roshi, influential Zen monk, dies at 107 A koan exposes our conceptual understandings of life as illusions. Letter of Recommendation: The Useless Machine 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Then again, to quote that koan from Jewish Buddhist wisdom — if there is no self, whose arthritis is this? Reality at risk 2013-09-12T13:50:05.250Z On-screen, the words appeared and vanished like a time-lapse koan: “deceased,” “die,” “myself,” “breathing,” “self,” “thrive,” “my,” “funeral,” “suicide,” “other,” “deceased,” “breathing,” “thrive,” “theirs,” “die,” “myself.” The Suicide Detective 2013-06-26T11:00:16Z When he finished, he read it aloud, a koan to the heavens. City Room: From a Familiar Stranger, a Poem Written on the Stars 2012-06-04T18:08:19Z This thing is a koan to impracticality, a paean to muscle. Nissan $98,000 ‘Godzilla’ GT-R Supercar Stomps Ferrari, Porsche 2012-02-09T01:20:42Z This “Where’s his plan?” refrain quickly became a GOP koan, repeated ad nauseam on cable television and later by reporters in the White House briefing room. Debt Debate Distractions: The Top 4 Red Herrings 2011-07-29T17:33:04Z There is a Buddhist koan I want to share with you that goes like this: When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. Words of Wisdom 2011-06-11T23:10:19Z In conversation, she toggles between Spanish and English, tossing off the koans of a conceptual artist. An Artist?s Performance: A Year as a Poor Immigrant 2011-05-18T16:30:34Z This is a chunky, chewy little koan, and as these go, it's an elegant statement of the main contradiction of life in the "information age". Saying information wants to be free does more harm than good 2010-05-18T06:00:00Z Keeping a body unburied for a considerable time is called khng koan, 'to conceal or store away a coffin,' or thîng koan, 'to detain a coffin.' The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 Hackers are very fond of the koan form and compose their own koans for humororous and/or enlightening effect. The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 See has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, ha ha only serious, koan, AI koans. The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 |
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