Continuing with my focus on mindfulness and what it has to teach us about procrastination, today I turn to the Zen tradition of the koan. Koans are enigmatic and paradoxical stories that defy solution ...

After reading the chapter “Intellectual, Learn to Die!” in the book “The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky,” I ran into this on Valencia Street. I immediately thought of the anecdote told in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lisa Kocay covers electronic dance music. It’s been three years since electronic music duo KOAN Sound has released music. Today, ...

As defined by Dictionary.com, koan [koh-ahn] is a nonsensical or paradoxical question to a student for which an answer is demanded, the stress of meditation on the question often being illuminating.

Colorful sonic moods, contrasting textures, syncopation, liquid beats, ominous and light-hearted bass, cinematic melodies and glitchy tunes. Since these musical definitions span a broad spectrum of ...

Koan Kenpachi’s “Supremium” is a hip-hop record. That’s obvious, of course, in the 17-track album’s sound and the New Orleans veteran emcee’s fine-tuned lyricism, but more, “Supremium” is a ...

This week Koan, a startup that provides objectives-and-key-results (OKR) and status-tracking software, announced that it has raised an additional $1 million, added a free tier to its service and ...

WOODBRIDGE — Ethan Schneider, 28, set out after high school to become an entrepreneur, but fell in love with organic farming — and now he has a small farm here, hoping to grow his slice of heaven into ...