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  • A Koan cannot be answered logically - as a Question, a Koan is a Quest that has to be lived.

    Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Joaquin the Koan 2010

  • Joaquin the Koan: a Koan is a riddle question used in Zen training to help the seeker transcend seeking.

    Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Joaquin the Koan Ph.D. Pavel Somov 2010

  • Joaquin the Koan: a Koan is a riddle question used in Zen training to help the seeker transcend seeking.

    Joaquin the Koan 2010

  • A Koan cannot be answered logically - as a Question, a Koan is a Quest that has to be lived.

    Joaquin the Koan 2010

  • A Koan cannot be answered logically - as a Question, a Koan is a Quest that has to be lived.

    Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Joaquin the Koan Ph.D. Pavel Somov 2010

  • Joaquin the Koan: a Koan is a riddle question used in Zen training to help the seeker transcend seeking.

    Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Joaquin the Koan 2010

  • Wilson admired works of generative music such as Brian Eno's "Koan," but wanted something more like "'real world' sound, sound that everyone might be familiar with," he said.

    FallNews - all mud and witches 1998

  • You wouldn’t know from your first taste, but the six tracks on the appropriately titled Koan Eibon/Prefeed are based, in large part, on the sound of a Washburn guitar.

    Disquiet » Washburn via Sweden 2000

  • This CD also features 7 bonus tracks 'Koan' (alt. version), 'The Wheel' (alt. version), 'The Casbah'

    AvaxHome RSS: 2009

  • His 2009 release, "Koan," drew meaning chiefly from repetition and the silences between tones.

    Thinking Man's Drummer Larry Blumenfeld 2011

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