Crossword-Solution: KOAN 4 letters, 34 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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KOAN anagram AKON, KANO, KAON, KONA

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Riddle from a master 1 answer
public plan 1 answer
Zen riddle 1 answer
Zen question 1 answer
Zen puzzler 1 answer
Zen puzzle 1 answer
Zen paradox 1 answer
Zen master's riddle 1 answer
Zen master's question 1 answer
Zen master's query 1 answer
Zen master's paradox 1 answer
Zen master's conundrum 1 answer
Zen discipline 1 answer
Spiritual question 1 answer
Riddle without an answer 1 answer
Riddle in Zen Buddhism 1 answer
Riddle for a student of Zen 1 answer
"What is the sound of one hand clapping?" e.g. 1 answer
"What is the sound of one hand clapping?," say 1 answer
"When you can do nothing, what can you do?", e.g. 1 answer
Aid to Zen meditation 1 answer
For example, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" 1 answer
JAPANESE public plan 1 answer
Master's riddle 1 answer
Meditation contemplation 1 answer
Meditation focus, at times 1 answer
Meditation question 1 answer
Paradox to be meditated on 1 answer
Paradoxical question, in Zen 1 answer
Paradoxical riddle 1 answer
Something to meditate on 4 answers
clapping 18 answers
contemplation 41 answers
Paradox 77 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with KOAN (5)

Compare {Vulcan nerve pinch}, {bounce}, and {boot}, and see the AI Koan in "{A Selection of AI Koans}" (in {appendix A}) about Tom Knight and the novice.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Hackers are very fond of the koan form and compose their own koans for humororous and/or enlightening effect.
The New Hacker's Dictionary version 4.2.2 Various editors 2002
Something concerning her you may also find in the book entitled "Kin-Kou-Ki-Koan," which signifies in our tongue: "The Marvellous Happenings of Ancient and of Recent Times." And perhaps of all things therein written, the most marvellous is this memory of Sië-Thao:-- Five hundred years ago, in the reign of the Emperor Houng-Wou, whose dynasty was _Ming_, there lived in the City of Genii, the city of Kwang-tchau-fu, a man celebrated for his learning and for his piety, named Tien-Pelou.
Some Chinese Ghosts Lafcadio Hearn 2005
Schlegel, Julien, Gardner, Birch, D'Entrecolles, Rémusat, Pavie, Olyphant, Grisebach, Hervey-Saint-Denys, and others, have given the Occidental world translations of eighteen stories from the _Kin-Kou-Ki-Koan_; namely, Nos.
Some Chinese Ghosts Lafcadio Hearn 2005
One day, when Koané had slept later than usual, his father and mother went to their work before him, and there was only Thakané to be seen busy making the bread for supper.
The Brown Fairy Book Andrew Lang 2010

Quotes with KOAN (3)

To be a full-blooded hillbilly was to be a living koan. Half of you wanted to be dignified and half of you couldn’t tolerate any restraint. You could see it in the regional art and hear it in the music. Wood carving with chainsaws. Cloggers who danced up a storm with the lower half of their bodies, but held the upper half perfectly still and stared off into the distance stone-faced. Or a group of bluegrass musicians who’d be playing the most raucous tunes imaginable, looking …
Carolyn Jourdan Out on a Limb: A Smoky Mountain Mystery
Wisteria hangs over the eaves like clumps of ghostly grapes. Euphorbia's pale blooms billow like sea froth. Blood grass twists upward, knifing the air, while underground its roots go berserk, goosing everything in their path. A magnolia, impatient with vulvic flesh, erupts in front of the living room window. The recovering terrorist--holding a watering can filled with equal parts fish fertilizer and water, paisley gloves right up over her freckled forearms, a straw hat with i…
Zsuzsi Gartner Better Living Through Plastic Explosives
And what we’ve been always been is…?”“Is living on borrowed time. Never caring about who’s paying for it, who’s starving somewhere else all jammed together so we can have cheap food, a house, a yard in the burbs … planetwide, more every day, the payback keeps gathering. And meantime the only help we get from the media is boo hoo the innocent dead. Boo fuckin hoo. You know what? All the dead are innocent. There’s no uninnocent dead.” After a while, “You’re not going to explain…
Thomas Pynchon Bleeding Edge
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 44 times in crossword archives (1986–2025).