Used to bring about a state of satori, it remains one of the main practices of the Rinzai sect, and strict followers contemplate them while sitting in zazen.
Yuan-Wu collected and commented on one hundred of them in a collection known as the "Blue Cliff Records," and Muju wrote a book of them entitled Collection of Stone and Sand. Used to bring about a state of satori, it remains one of the main practices of the Rinzai sect, and strict followers contemplate them while sitting in zazen. Potential solutions are presented through san-zen, and a notable example of one is "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" FTP, identify this term for a paradoxical statement meant to enhance discipline in some branches of Buddhism.
Yuan-Wu collected and commented on one hundred of them in a collection known as the "Blue Cliff Records," and Muju wrote a book of them entitled Collection of Stone and Sand.
{koan}s