"When you can do nothing, what can you do?", e.g

Usage examples of koan.

On the wall was a scroll bearing his favorite koan, brushworked by a 13th Century Japanese master.

And so I decided to try and find the Way the Koan really talked about.

Slowly, as it swirled around and around, it changed, ebbing and flowing, into another Koan he knew so well.

That place was No-Place just as the face referred to in the Koan that hung in the Flagship was No-Face and the state of mind necessary to Enlightenment was No-Mind.

I like to think Nakamura knew all that and left his koan to remind us of that truth.

Tachyon was making a koan, a Zen riddle designed to teach a subtle lesson about the nature of life.

I doubted, despite my misspent youth, that I could actually take him in a Zen koan duel.

Another koan or two, and then I would be free to deal with this miscreant on my own.

Then the great days of the Black Dragon Koan would come again to save the Country of the Rising Sun from the creeping paralysis of demokorasu!

I can give you ten different interpretations of what Jerome's Koans mean.

Some were poems, a few koans, but the vast majority seemed to be formulas of some esoteric type.

Koans of synesthesia, to break apart the unity of the sense that bars the time sense.

I realize that she is a master of Tantric and Zen Buddhism, answering monks who have spent decades mastering those disciplines in koan and Dharma.