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9 Jun 2022, 6:35 am
When asked how he arrived at the structure of his novel, which zigzags from the 1990s to the 1970s to the 1940s and then forward again, he replied with a koan-like commentary on the illusion of chronology: 'We settle ourselves into a grand fiction of present time. [read post]
1 Apr 2022, 1:00 pm
In the Zen tradition, indecipherable koans like "what is the sound of one hand clapping" are meant to lead us to greater truths about the universe. [read post]
12 Nov 2021, 7:32 am
" I hadn't seen the thought put like that, which seems a bit like a Zen koan. [read post]
26 Feb 2020, 9:17 am
It's almost a Zen koan. [read post]
14 Feb 2020, 12:30 pm
" In this Zen koan of a case, the Eleventh Circuit holds that a quasi-governmental agency attempting to collect a nonexistent debt is not a "debt collector" because the attempted collection of the (again, nonexistent) debt was incidental to the agency's "bona fide fiduciary obligation" to collect debts. [read post]
9 Jan 2020, 12:54 pm
Antoine Druetz joins from KOAN Law Firm, where he led the non-profit and trade associations group. [read post]
2 Aug 2019, 4:08 am
Homosexuality has been like a koan—a Zen riddle—for me. [read post]
30 May 2019, 9:41 am
Americans need to see the movie and not be left with what they are likely to experience as a Zen koan of a book. [read post]
24 Jun 2018, 6:42 am
Is that a Zen koan? [read post]
8 Dec 2017, 6:54 am
Is this like one of those Zen koans, where something’s only seemingly nonsensical but in fact turns out to be very wise? [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 7:24 am
That's no Zen koan. [read post]
16 Aug 2017, 8:54 am
Both parties’ experts agreed that white-on-white text was ineffectual, so this passage reminds me of a venerable online trademark koan: if a trademark tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it constitute trademark infringement? [read post]
9 Aug 2017, 9:09 pm
Guess who’s sponsoring legislation to facilitate predatory lending? [read post]
6 Aug 2017, 3:22 pm
Nearly all popular books about Buddhism are rich in poetic quotation and arresting aphorisms, those ironic koans that are part of the (Zen) Buddhist décor—tales of monks deciding that it isn’t the wind or the flag that’s waving in the breeze but only their minds. [read post]
2 Jan 2017, 4:35 pm
Their koan states that – although the BRI construction need not be the correct interpretation, the chosen BRI construction may not be “a legally incorrect interpretation. [read post]
20 May 2016, 12:53 pm
Unlike a koan—a logic-defying riddle told by a Buddhist master to their students designed to bring them on the path of enlightenment—there’s a logical solution to all of this. [read post]
1 Apr 2016, 1:12 pm
Questioning from the bench may continue to be in koan form. [read post]
30 Oct 2015, 7:59 am
Times suggests is sort of kind of a Zen koan. [read post]
26 Oct 2015, 5:46 pm
” - The 2010 essay Cybersecurity and National Policy in the Harvard National Security Journal is part analysis, part aggregation of hacker koans... [read post]
14 Apr 2015, 9:40 pm
.-------------------* Pause, here, for the Ghandian koan: We kill to show that it's wrong to kill. [read post]
