Looking to refresh your meditation practice? Try incorporating Zen buddhist koans. Welcome to The Curiosity Academy, Stylist’s new learning hub where you can access workshops, how-to guides, new ...

A koan is a riddle or puzzle that Zen Buddhists use during meditation to help them unravel greater truths about the world and about themselves. Zen masters have been testing their students with these ...

“What is the sound of one hand clapping?” That’s the one we’ve all heard. A koan, they’re called. Even if you’ve never set foot in a Zen center, chances are this question has floated past you at some ...

ZEN SAND: The Book of Capping Phrases for Koan Practice, by Victor Sogen Hori. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003, 764 pp., $37.00 (cloth). Back in 1947 when I was sitting with Dr. Suzuki ...

A koan is a Zen Buddhist riddle that cannot be solved by the intellect alone. The best known, portrayed on the cover of Lars Jansson Trio's Koan, is "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" The koan ...

But then, after studying koans at the Zen Center of Los Angeles with John Daishin Buzsbazen, I learned a bit more: A koan is a short Zen teaching story or paradoxical question designed to interrupt ...