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| | Koan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Koans are often used by Zen practitioners as objects of meditation to induce an experience of enlightenment or realization, and by Zen teachers as testing questions when a student wishes to validate their experience of enlightenment. | | | Koan practice—concentrating on koans during meditation and other activities—is particularly important among Japanese practictioners of the Rinzai sect of Zen. | | | A koan (pronounced /ko.an/) is a story, dialog, question, or statement in the history and lore of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, generally containing aspects that are inaccessible to rational understanding, yet that may be accessible to Intuition. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Koan
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| | Understanding the meaning of Zen Koans |
| | These two aspects, Koan exercises and Satori are the central aspects of Zen. | | | The following is an example of a Zen Koan. | | | One of the most baffling aspects of Zen to the Western mind is the practice of Koans. |
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http://mtmt.essortment.com/zenkoanspiritu_rlmp.htm
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| | Zen Buddhism, Ch'an, satori, koan, zazen, the Roshi |
| | Zen Buddhism, Ch'an, satori, koan, zazen, the Roshi | | | Is also essential: He not only gives the koans and zazen to the student to suppress the mind an body, but also shouts to him, gives him painful blows with a "warning stick", to humiliate him, to destroy completely the student personality... | | | The Zen Buddhism from Japan had become in the mid-20th century perhaps the best known of the Buddhists schools in the Western world... |
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http://religion-cults.com/Eastern/Buddhism/budis10.htm
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| | koan -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Japanese Koan, in Zen Buddhism of Japan, a succinct paradoxical statement or question used as a meditation discipline for novices, particularly in the Rinzai sect. | | | Features articles on Buddha and history of Zen and Koan forms of modern Buddhism. | | | Among the methods it practices are shouts (katsu) or blows delivered by the master on the disciple, question-and-answer sessions (mondo), and meditation on paradoxical statements (koan), all intended to accelerate a breakthrough of the normal... |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9045827?&query=zen
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| | fUSION Anomaly. Koan |
| | A riddle in the form of a paradox used in Zen Buddhism as an aid to meditation and a means of gaining intuitive knowledge. | | | To meditate on a koan is to engage in an active | | | But those who may have engaged their hedonic or transegoic circuits begin to realize that it may be best to treat the world as a Zen riddle or koan, and appreciate the qualities of subtlety, irony, ambiguity, and unexpectedness that make the universe so precious. |
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http://fusionanomaly.net/koan.html
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| | Koan Practice |
| | A koan is literally a precedent setting public record." Generally speaking, koans are taken from live exchanges between Zen masters and advanced students, or between advanced 'practitioners, or from sutras or ancient sayings. | | | The function of a koan is to spark a question, to give rise to that which in the Zen tradition has been called the Great Question. | | | The beauty of a koan is the beauty of mind without the limitation of self. |
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http://www.cezwright.com/dhammapada/koan_practice.htm
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| | Buddhism and the puzzling,intriguing koans |
| | Taken from Japanese, the koan can be a question, an excerpt from the sutras, an episode in the life of an ancient Master, a word exchanged in a mondo, or any other fragment of teaching. | | | No aspect of Zen is as puzzling and yet intriguing to Westerners as the koan. | | | There are some 1,700 traditional koans in existence. |
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http://www.modernbuddhism.com/a-whatisakoan.htm
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| | A Koan of My Own |
| | I don't have a Zen master; I don't practice Zen. | | | The purpose of a koan (they tell me, "they" being people who think about Zen -- ha ha) is to "break the back of logic". | | | The idea is, studying or thinking about Zen is a complete waste of time, so you give the wise-ass student a koan, a piece of utter illogic, and tell him to make sense of it. |
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http://www.eblong.com/zarf/koan.html
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| | Koan Studies - Pi-yen-lu koans |
| | koan collection as used in the Zen training. | | | A collection of 100 koans originally compiled, with appreciatory verses, by Hsüeh-tou Ch'ung-hsien (J. Setcho Juken) under a name of the 'Priest Hsüeh-tou 's Capping Verses on One Hundred Cases'. | | | The text was published in Japan as a part of the 'Taisho shinshu daizokyo' (Buddhist Canon Published in the Taisho Era). |
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http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/ZenPages/Koans-PYL.html
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| | Koan Studies Pages |
| | "A koan is a Zen presentation in the form of a Zen challenge" (DeMartino 1983) | | | Zen dust - the history of the koan and koan study in Rinzai (Lin-chi) Zen. | | | "Koans are the folk stories of Zen Buddhism, metaphorical narratives that particularize essential nature. |
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http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/ZenPages/KoanStudy.html
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| | Zen Teachings-Koan Practice |
| | Koans act like swords to stab at your ego and draw forth your Buddha Nature (your fully natural nature that is not dependent on your self-definition). | | | Perhaps the earliest example of a koan comes from the fable of the time the historical Buddha held up a flower before an assemblage of followers and spoke not a word. | | | Koans should only be used after one's meditation has entered Samadhi. |
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http://www.zenproject.faithweb.com/zen_teachings/koan_practice.html
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| | The Koan Q&A |
| | In regard to the koan exercise, itself, as laid out by Chinese Zen master Ta-hui, Joshu's "Mu" is called a *hua-wei* meaning "word-tail". | | | A: When the pioneer of the koan exercise, Yuan-wu, used the expression "doubt", he meant it to refer to obstacles which Zen practitioners must overcome. | | | On the other hand, today's so-called Zen books are, for the most part, the machinations of Pop Zennists who don't have the slightest inkling of how koans work. |
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http://www.darkzen.com/zenmar/thekoan.html
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| | Nugent--Christ the Koan |
| | Christ the Koan is Son of God and Son of Man, divine yet human, first and last, the root and offspring of David, the primal embodiment of the Paschal mystery of life-through-death. | | | Christ the Koan would return us to the personage of “the mystery of faith,” as against the all-but-comedic spectacle of “Christ the Commodity.” This Christ the Koan whom I find implicit in Sulivan is a transcendental truth, a truth beyond confines of East or West, a Christ the Question as much as Christ the Answer. | | | And if the appellation “Christ the Koan” is objectionable, a real Christologist, Edward Schillebeeckx, has observed that some of the early Fathers referred to Jesus of Nazareth as “the new Orpheus” and that only the Fourth Gospel speaks of Christ as the Logos. |
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http://www.monasticdialog.com/bulletins/69/nugent.htm
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| | Jan Chozen Bays - Old Koans, New Koans, One Koan |
| | Koans are not old stories in dusty books about monks who lived a thousand years ago, irrelevant to life today. | | | A student came to me in sesshin, unsure if she should work on Zen koans because she was a Catholic. | | | Many koans show evidence that Zen teachers used anger skillfully to poke at their students' addictions, unbalance them and help them step "off the top of a hundred foot pole". |
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http://www.kwanumzen.com/primarypoint/v05n2-1988-spring-janchozenbays-oldkoansnewkoansonekoan.html
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| | In koan practice, a koan is an expression of the truth or reality, and also a question practitioners have to wrestle with. | | | The practice of Rinzai Zen is called "koan practice." In the case of koan practice, koan implies recorded stories, or sayings of ancient Chinese masters. | | | Gosho says, "Koan refers to the Shobogenzo itself." Shobogenzo is the true-dharma-eye-treasury that has been transmitted from the Buddha through ancestors in each generation. |
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http://www.alaska.net/~zen/lecture.html
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| | The Koan of relationships - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition |
| | The Zen koan may or may not have an answer, but the koan of human relationships is certainly a puzzle that has no answer to it. | | | ‘Koan’ is an unsolvable puzzle created by Zen masters for their disciples. | | | “It is a greater riddle than any koan that Zen masters give to their disciples, because their koans are meditative — one is alone. |
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http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/sep282005/panorama1631352005927.asp
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| | Buddhists: koan |
| | I don't know if you're involved in a koan school of Zen but this is an inherent problem with ‘koan schools' in that there is a huge misconception that you can answer them in series and attain enlightenment, which is sheer nonsense. | | | To even see a koan is to ‘see the Buddha on the road', it is created by the mind and thus false. | | | In the beginning of “Zen Comments on the Mumonkan”, Zenkei Shibayama's masterful work on the traditional ‘Mumonkan', the collection of koans, he states that ‘these koans are presented in no particular order
” (emphasis mine) He does this to underscore the importance that breaking through one koan answers them all. |
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http://experts.about.com/q/948/3567175.htm
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| | Zen Koans - AshidaKim.com |
| | These koans, or parables, were translated into English from a book called the Shaseki-shu (Collection of Stone and Sand), written late in the thirteenth century by the Japanese Zen teacher Muju (the "non-dweller"), and from anecdotes of Zen monks taken from various books published in Japan around the turn of the 20th century. | | | Would you like to learn how Zen Koans pertain to Ninjitsu? |
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http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/zenindex.html
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| | The Koan |
| | Finally, the koan points to an even deeper analogy that is, IMO, fully intended by the Zen master: just as the koan is a logically structured question that, in fact, needs to be answered experientially, so too all metaphysical questions can only be answered in this manner. | | | A typical problem might be that the novice Zen student doesn’t understand, for example, “what is the meaning of the Buddha nature?&;, and is bothered by this lack of comprehension. | | | Note the similarity of the structure of this question to the koan: it is formulated in normal language and it even makes use of vocabulary that is familiar to an oriental student. |
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http://www.megasociety.net/noesis/149/koan.html
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| | Boundless Way Zen (Boston, MA): The Koan "No", by Melissa Blacker |
| | It has come to be the first koan usually assigned to students of Boundless Way Zen and the Worcester Zen Group who have made a strong commitment to the practice of zazen and have expressed an interest in koan study. | | | Wumen’s commentary that follows this koan in the Wumenkuan is a step by step guide to understanding not only the koan, but also how to proceed in the actual moment-by-moment practice of Zen. | | | It contains within it the seeds of awareness which are cultivated throughout Zen practice, and Wumen’s own commentary on the koan is an illuminating set of instructions on how to practice zazen, and specifically koan Zen, and how to find freedom from the constructions of the mind. |
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http://www.boundlesswayzen.org/teishos/blacker-noteisho.html
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| | koan on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Koan practice was transmitted to Japan as part of Zen in the 13th cent., and it remains one of the main practices of the Rinzai sect. | | | In the formative period of Ch'an in China, masters tested the enlightenment of their students and of each other through statements and dialogue that expressed spiritual intuition in nonrational, paradoxical language. | | | A scientific Koan: what is the cause of cystic fibrosis? |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/k1/koan.asp
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| | Analysis (Services and Self) |
| | This is one of those insufferably self-centred "I'm happy and I don't care who knows it" kind of posts. | | | A few weeks ago, I wrote about a colleague of mine; when I originally wrote that post, I wasn't sure if that colleague had an online presence, and so didn't feel it appropriate to name them. | | | The thing about keeping my perceptions open is that I spot trends and threads that otherwise might fly completely under my radar. |
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http://yakushitsu.blogspot.com
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| | SUNY Press :: Dogen and the Koan Tradition |
| | Significance of the Koan as a Zen Symbol | | | This book has three major goals in critically examining the historical and philosophical relation between the writings of Dogen and the Zen koan tradition. | | | SUNY Press :: Dogen and the Koan Tradition |
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http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=52852
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| | koan |
| | It is the first Koan that a student is given when he enters a temple. | | | According to the book The Sound of the One Hand: 281 Zen Koans With Answers, translated by Yoel Hoffman, the answer is an action, thrusting out one's hand, followed by a dialogue with the teacher. | | | According to Hoffmann, this Koan was composed by a Master Hakuin in the 18th century. |
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http://www3.tky.3web.ne.jp/~edjacob/koan.html
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| | koan |
| | Classically, koans are attractive paradoxes to be meditated on; their purpose is to help one to enlightenment by temporarily jamming normal cognitive processing so that something more interesting can happen (this practice is associated with Rinzai Zen Buddhism). | | | Defined here because hackers are very fond of the koan form and compose their own koans for humorous and/or enlightening effect. |
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/K/koan.html
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| | A Koan (my definition): an enigmatic response to a disciple by a Master. | | | Each time the disciple offers a reasoned “answer” he will be chased away by blows or shouts. | | | A Koan (classical definition): originally referred to a document relating to an official transaction, e.g. |
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http://www.jaysquare.com/ljohnson/deconstructionE.htm
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| | Multidimensional.Me |
| | I am Koan Bremner, and I am a transsexual woman. | | | And so I am reclaiming my T. From now on, when that is the appropriate term to use in relation to myself, I won't water it down or take the easy way out. | | | I'm Koan Bremner, a woman with many professional, personal, cultural, social and leisure interests. |
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http://www.multidimensional.me.uk
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| | Zen Koans: Transcending Duality |
| | In that text also lie the answers to these various koans. | | | Maintained by John Lee (johnlee@midway.uchicago.edu) Last modified 16 August 1996 |
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http://www.chinapage.com/zen/koan1.html
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| | koan - KBCafe tag search |
| | Bush's Zen Koan Submitted by zencomix on November 8, 2005 - 12:40 Cartoons | | | [IMG Image Hosted by ImageShack.us] political, satire, Bush, Zen, Koan, cartoons, torture, Gannon, political cartoons Zencomix... |
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| | MSN Encarta - Dictionary - koan |
| | Zen Buddhist riddle: a Zen Buddhist riddle used to focus the mind during meditation and to develop intuitive thinking | | | Click here to search all of MSN Encarta | | | Search for "koan" in all of MSN Encarta |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861624366
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| | Koan Letter Cutters |
| | Chiron 28 (1998) 137-40, no. 21, a decree of Sinope for the Koan Dionnos Polytionos, was apparently cut in the same hand, as Herzog had noted and K. and L. Hallof now confirm (ibid., 139 with n. | | | 195-192 in Christian Habicht's list of Koan monarchoi). | | | The list of Koan epigraphical "hands" which follows is intended solely to illustrate the potential for identifying the work of individual stonecutters in the Corpus of Koan Hellenistic inscriptions - it should go without saying that it is far from complete. |
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http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/Kos/Lettering/Lettercutters.html
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| | Zen Koan - Language and Religion |
| | The most famouns Zen koan of all is a play on a Chinese proverb `It takes two hands to clap': | | | Master: `What is the sound of one hand clapping?' |
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http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~port/teach/relg/koan.html
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| | Netscape created Javascript as one method of communicating between the browser and a plugin, which may be written in a variety of programming languages such as C or C++. | | | The first three are assigned to the background sound that you hear when no head is playing. | | | This page contains a Koan OLE control that your browser was unable to view. |
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| | The Independent: Eno on KOAN Pro |
| | A couple of the pieces were clearly in "my" style, but what surprised me was that I could have been proud of them. | | | Then came the gramophone record, which captured particular performances and made it possible to hear them identically over and over again. | | | But KOAN and other recent experiments like it are the beginning of something new. |
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| | KOAN-IT - Terms of Use |
| | You can only use the document for your personal non-commercial use. | | | These sites are not under the control of KOAN-IT and by accessing them, you do so at your own risk. | | | We welcome your comments with respect to the KOAN-IT Terms of Use. |
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| | Koan Corporation - Reconfigurable Computing Solutions |
| | You are also exactly the kind of company that we are trying to grow more of in the state of Ohio. | | | Koan's primary function is to integrate high performance computing with traditional IT. | | | Koan understands these problems, and with this understanding creates solutions that break the conventional molds of high performance computing. |
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| | SSEYO Koan Pro |
| | With SSEYO Koan Pro, the award winning generative music authoring system, you can create and control superb pieces of generative music. | | | The full power of the SSEYO Koan Generative Music Engine can be used to drive external software samplers using virtual MIDI software such as MIDI Ox and Hubris (not supplied). | | | SSEYO Koan Pro gives you control over more than 250 (some are soundcard specific) real-time changeable Koan 'parameters' available in a Koan piece. |
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| | Yet, the Koan Float-System is not only marked with CE but has been approved as a medical therapeutical aid as well. | | | The Koan Float-System is provided with a CE Mark | | | The Koan Float-System meets the following European regulations: |
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| | Every program presented to KOAN is carefully examined and evaluated with regard to its potential in the international market place. | | | Since its creation, KOAN has always prided itself in the choice of programs it represents and was one of the first distribution companies to offer family programming at a time when stations had not yet understood the potential of the family market in the television industry. | | | In addition, each program is highly promoted at all of the international markets that KOAN attends. |
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| | These values, many of which are time dependent, are written into a SSEYO Koan file. | | | SKP files cannot be loaded by Koan Pro, making it a useful format for distributing Koan pieces where you do not want the techniques you have used to be seen by others. | | | The four necessary file extensions are as follows :.skd - SSEYO Koan Design file, authored using SSEYO Koan Pro. |
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| | Koan is the mind expanding ritual of Zahaah (Himinbjorg) and Christop Pion-Chozenon (Spher). | | | Koan effectively deliver ambient and atmospheric songs which shall relinquish your soul entranced, perhaps as if it were caught in a pitch black forest. | | | Their music will unfold the spaces in your intellect through a phenomenon of neon underwater dreams. |
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| | SSEYO Koan Plugin - WinPlanet Windows Software Reviews |
| | Not only do Koan clips take up less space than comparable MIDI and WAV files, they also sound much better. | | | The plug-in plays Koan clips that are generated locally in real time and can even make use of SoundFonts. | | | As long as your audience has the Koan Plug-in (also known as the Interactive Koan Music Control or IKMC), they too can easily listen to the relaxing and reflective or quick and provocative music clips that you create. |
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| | Flickr: _KoAn_ |
| | KoAn is a true Artist, for her shots go straight to ur inner side, as a needle into the flesh. |
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| | SourceForge.net: |
| | Koan has a powerful and highly extensible code generation system and is designed for production use within an enterprise environment. | | | Below is a list of all files released by this project. |
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| | SSEYO - Mobile Music Making |
| | Nov 26th: SSEYO miniMIXA SE V2 User Guide now online | | | Sep 26th: Brian Eno Uses Koan on Latest Album |
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