Koan school had existed some time before his birth.
There's nothing quite like the koan in the literature of the world: historical episodes that have to be relived intuitively and responded to.
But most of all Hakuin was dismayed by what he considered to be the complete misunderstanding of koanpractice in Japan.
So did Dogen return to Japan in the fall of 1227, taking with him the koan collection Blue Cliff Record, which he copied his last night in China.
It is true that our predecessors recommended both the koan and sitting, but it was the sitting that they particularly insisted upon.
He believed a koan should engender a "great doubt" in the mind of a novice, and through this great doubt lead him to the first enlightenment or kensho.
Hakuin was the legitimate heir of the Chinese koan master Ta-hui, and the first teacher since to actually expand the philosophical dimensions of Zen.
Several of these are preserved in the two major koan collections of later years.
This is Case 1 in the Mumonkan, usually the first koan given to a beginning student.
Initially he had advocated the "Mu" koan for beginners, but late in life he came up with the famous "What is the sound of one hand clapping?
Monks had memorized so many anecdotes about the ancient Chinese masters that they thought they could signify the resolution of a koanby some insincere theatrics.
Although he grudgingly acknowledged the usefulness of koan as an aid to instruction, Dogen considered zazen meditation the time-proven method of the Buddha for acTheving enlightenment.
The discipline of meditation and the mind-dissolving paradoxes of the koan become instruments to forge a fearless, automatic, mindless instrument of steel-tipped death.
Out of this there was gradually canonized what are now the classickoan of Zen.
The Japanese warriors were captured by the irreverent, anti- scholastic qualities of Rinzai, with its reliance upon anecdotal koan and violent jolts of enlightenment.
The koan of T'ang masters were compiled and stuThed, while the sutras of orthodox Buddhism suffered from neglect.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "koan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
