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a paradox; a paradox or problem meditated upon in Zen Buddhism to illustrate the need to abandon reason in the quest for enlightenment
1978Way-FarerOn the wall was a scroll bearing his favorite koan, brushworked by a 13th Century Japanese master.1995Philosophies of AsiaWhat is called the Zen problem, or koan, is likened to a person who has swallowed a ball of red-hot iron. He cannot gulp it down and he cannot spit it out.Labels: Allen Watts, Dennis Schmidt
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