[Buddha-l] Pure Conversation vs koan

[curt]

Wong Weng Fai wrote:
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> Curt wrote...
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>> One last question - it looks like "qing tan" means (roughly) "pure
>> conversation"? This sounds like a potentially useful alernative to the
>> term "koan", which many people find off-putting.
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> Yup. "Qing" is the character for "pure" and "tan" is the character for 
> "conversation". I believe it is suppose to mean "a conversation pure 
> of worldly concerns." The world, dust etc. being characterized as 
> pollutants.
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>

Nice! That makes it sound even more "zenny". That wasn't what I was 
expecting "pure" to mean!

- Curt