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Koans and Levels of Consciousness

2010; Volume: 29; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.24972/ijts.2010.29.1.12

1942-3241

John Rowan,

Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs

This is a theoretical paper devoted to an examination of the phenomenon of the Zen koan.First, the existing understanding of the koan will be outlined from a number of sources.This will be followed by an examination of what the koan would look like from a structural point of view.Ken Wilber's outlook will then be used to look at the koan in a fresh way so that one might see it as a kind of test of the level of consciousness exhibited by each solution.The latter is related to recent thinking on models in general.