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Koan Practice

Koan Practice is a meditative method within Zen Buddhist tradition that involves the contemplation of paradoxical statements or questions to transcend logical reasoning and facilitate direct insight into the nature of reality.

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2017–2026

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Weighted Sums of Random Kitchen Sinks: Replacing minimization with randomization in learning

Ali Rahimi, Benjamin Recht · 2008 · 561 citations

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The yin and yang of progress in social psychology: Seven koan.

William J. McGuire · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1973 · 493 citations

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An American otaku (or, a boy’s virtual life on the net)

Joseph Tobin · 2004 · 24 citations

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Dereification in Zen Buddhism

Robert J. Moore · Sociological Quarterly · 1995 · 24 citations

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Zen and the creative management of dilemmas

Albert Low, Ronald E. Purser · Journal of Management Spirituality & Religion · 2012 · 19 citations

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Authors

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  1. AR
    Avital Ronell

    1 publications · 19 citations

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  2. SO
    Shako Otto

    1 publications · 11 citations

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  3. HM
    Hans Mommsen

    University of Bonn, Germany

    1 publications · 13 citations

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  4. SH
    Steven Heine

    University of British Columbia, Canada

    1 publications · 13 citations

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  5. DL
    David Landis Barnhill

    University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, United States

    1 publications · 13 citations

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Institutions

9

  1. British School at Athens

    Athens, Greece

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

  2. University of Bonn

    Bonn, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

  3. San Francisco State University

    San Francisco, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    19 citations

  4. Indiana University Bloomington

    Bloomington, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    24 citations

  5. University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  6. Intel (United States)

    Santa Clara, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    561 citations

  7. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    561 citations

  8. Nagoya University

    Nagoya, Japan

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

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  1. Psyke & Logos

    1 publications · 14 citations

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  2. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology

    1 publications · 12 citations

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  3. Journal of Management Spirituality & Religion

    JMSR · 1 publications · 19 citations

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  4. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    1 publications · 493 citations

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  5. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews

    1 publications · 10 citations

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