koan

1. No one has come closer than Whitman to cracking that corporate koan.
   在解决这个问题上，惠特曼曾经是最接近成功的人。
2. Zen Buddhism, with its discipline of meditation and its perplexing koan riddles, seems powerfully enlightening.
   佛教禅宗的打坐戒律和其令人费解的禅理似乎很有启发性。
3. Yes* this sounds like a koan because it is, and like a true Zen puzzle, contemplating the riddle will free you from the shackles of your mind.
   听起来想心印谜语因为它本来就是。沉思这个谜语能够将你从心灵的枷锁中释放出来。
4. Saying that time races along at one second per second has as much scientific weight as the utterance of a Zen koan.
   说时间以每秒一秒的速度前进，与禅宗公案中的妙语相较，科学的分量其实没有什麽差异。
5. In some of his poems, we can see not only his understanding of the Void and his meditation thoughts, but also some elements of koan.
   他的一些诗歌中表达了他对“空”的理解和感悟，禅宗公案的语言形式也被他吸收并运用于诗歌创造，禅定时的一些体验在他的诗歌中亦有所表现。
6. Koan play the most important feature of the narrative approach, that is concentrated around the case of the typical elements of the narrative.
   公案戏叙事方法的最大特点，即是围绕案件这典型元素集中叙事。

noun

1. a paradoxical anecdote or a riddle that has no solution